Religion

So of course in the current society we live in, religion and school don't mix. This isn't a problem because it's a way to keep conflicts out of the lives of the students, but the fact is that some schools are still pressured and conflicted heavily with the ideas are major religions. Yes, this country is very religious, and yes most of these schools are in fact in the religious belt of America, but the government and law strictly states that religion and school should not mix and if it's any other religion other than what the school and society as a majority preaches there is an objection. My school though is not accepting as they believe they are. Further more, most parents failing to see the rights this country has worked for because of their hypocricy, object to anything in education involving any other religion other than the major one of our American society.
Background to Topic: I'm sitting in class today and we begin talking about the black history program that our school had (My school is mainly black and mexican yet we only have a black history program...this is a later topic). While a majority of African American music is gospel music, the entire program was in fact that of a Sunday morning in Church. Church does not equal school, I'm sorry it just doesn't. The sad part being in that one girl recited the poem Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou and they changed one word, because they could not speak about the ride in a woman's beast, and yet today speaking to us about the TAKS test (a state test in Texas) they could say some of us were born to go to hell and that only us and God know what happens. I find that odd in many ways and in some parts am dying to protest such things.
Don't think that I am against religions or anything, because I could care less about what people choose to believe in. My best friend is in fact very religious and I go to church with her whenever I am invited though I am Buddist. I am respectful of everyone's choices, yet I find it highly offensive when people are hyprocritical or ignorant of other's beliefs.
This issue should be addressed because no student should feel as though they are in church when they go to an assembly or feel they are talking to a preacher when it's actually their principal. Start a movement into a tolerable age in our school so the next generation has something to look forward to instead of this.