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I am suggesting that impressionable children be taught that God is Love. In any language, in any religious belief, there is this common truth. Even agnostics and atheists can not deny that Love is powerful and the ultimate force for good. Children especially need to be loved, and to be taught about love and it's power. Prayer is communication with God is Love.

When I went to school, every day, before the pledge of alliegence was said, we all recited the Lord's Prayer:

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses, as we forgive those who tresspass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever, and ever. Amen.

At that time, and I graduated high school in 1969, most people in this country were Christians, and they went to church, and they worshipped God. Jewish people went to synagogues, and they worshipped God. There were very few Hindus, Buddists, Islamists, atheists, or agnostics in this country. The Lord's Prayer was commonly accepted as the simple standard of faith.

Then the atheists came, demanding their right to not be taught about God in school, and they won the fight, in the courts, because of our constitutional separation of church and state. Not that God or Christianity was being taught in school, it was just this one simple, powerful prayer.

It is interesting that all sessions of Congress open with a prayer, but it is not allowed in our schools. It has been reduced to "a moment of silence." People have the right to pray, and children should not be prohibited from learning of it's power.

My opinion:
Those who don't believe that prayer is powerful, and who believe that it is wrong to teach impressionable children about it, are doing a tremendous disservice to them, and to all of us, and to our great society and our great nation.
Teaching prayer and any religious beliefts do not belong in public schools, and when I was in public school, these were not taught. But we did say this simple and powerful prayer every morning.
It just seems to me, that this society has gone down the tubes slowly, progressively, until we are at the point now of these horrific tragedies, that were not common or frequent until about 20 years ago. This coincides with the first generation raised without prayer.

On facebook this morning, I saw the following:

Dear God,
Why do you allow so much viloence in our schools?
signed, concerned student.

Dear concerned student:
I'm not allowed in schools.
signed, God.