Religion should be treated as a personal issue and unless one is attending a religious school where prayers are made compulsory, one cannot be forced to pray ! Values are cuktivated and inculcated in the class room and by teachers not by making the students and teachers pray forcibly ...

Religion should be treated as a personal issue and unless one is attending a religious school where prayers are made compulsory, one cannot be forced to pray ! Values are cuktivated and inculcated in the class room and by teachers not by making the students and teachers pray forcibly ...

It is not right than no one forced to do any thing which he/she don't like do. In prayer students and others not only pray but they also do some other thing. Like singing national anthem, checking nails of students and some more. All these parts of prayer. If teacher stand during prayer what he will lost. Prayer will not stick on him. It is not right to stop salary of teacher for this reason. Religion is personal matter but discipline of school is also important.

I also don't see anything wrong in the teacher. See we cannot force anyone to do anything. Just because the teacher is the employee of a certain orgnization recognized by the government, doesn't mean that he has to say the prayers too.

Prayer is part of daily routine in all schools. Prayer is in mass gathering. everyone is free to hold own opinion but if every one is allowed to blow his own trumpet, there will be no uniformity in anything. Apart from prayer, some teacher may object to certain text books also and he may say that he will not teach that part.

The act of teacher in not participating in group prayer was definitely improper. Personally I am atheist but this cannot be a justification for not participating in a group ceremony. Even then it is improper to deny salary to the teacher. The High Court has justly ordered for payment of stopped salary. Moreover, although every individual teacher and student has to participate in all activities including prayers, govt. should consider removing prayers from govt. schools in view of secular principles.

Now, I want to ask a technical question. Everyone is supposed to abide by the rules of an organization and follow the code of conduct. There's no and should not be any excuse. If this thing is taken into account, I feel eveyone is bound by the same rules. As students are compelled to wear uniform and they cannot opt out and come to school wearing different clothes. If students are expected to follow rules to retain uniformity, why should't the teachers set the example. Any student can go out of the way and in defense say that when our teachers aren't performing their duties, how do you expect it from us.
See, I am just putting a logical thing here and want to know how law will deal in such a case.

Religion should be treated as a personal issue and unless one is attending a religious school where prayers are made compulsory, one cannot be forced to pray ! Values are cuktivated and inculcated in the class room and by teachers not by making the students and teachers pray forcibly ...

It is not right than no one forced to do any thing which he/she don't like do. In prayer students and others not only pray but they also do some other thing. Like singing national anthem, checking nails of students and some more. All these parts of prayer. If teacher stand during prayer what he will lost. Prayer will not stick on him. It is not right to stop salary of teacher for this reason. Religion is personal matter but discipline of school is also important.

You have balanced two things right. If religion is a personal thing, abiding by the rules of the shcool and such places is also compulsory. I don't know how the things will fall evantually. It looks tricky at times.

Religion should be treated as a personal issue and unless one is attending a religious school where prayers are made compulsory, one cannot be forced to pray ! Values are cuktivated and inculcated in the class room and by teachers not by making the students and teachers pray forcibly ...

It is not right than no one forced to do any thing which he/she don't like do. In prayer students and others not only pray but they also do some other thing. Like singing national anthem, checking nails of students and some more. All these parts of prayer. If teacher stand during prayer what he will lost. Prayer will not stick on him. It is not right to stop salary of teacher for this reason. Religion is personal matter but discipline of school is also important.

You have balanced two things right. If religion is a personal thing, abiding by the rules of the shcool and such places is also compulsory. I don't know how the things will fall evantually. It looks tricky at times.

If all people put the interest of the institution before any of their personal beliefs things would be alright....Most people want to carry their personal beliefs and preejudices with them all the time , even when they are in a public place ..

Religion should be treated as a personal issue and unless one is attending a religious school where prayers are made compulsory, one cannot be forced to pray ! Values are cuktivated and inculcated in the class room and by teachers not by making the students and teachers pray forcibly ...

It is not right than no one forced to do any thing which he/she don't like do. In prayer students and others not only pray but they also do some other thing. Like singing national anthem, checking nails of students and some more. All these parts of prayer. If teacher stand during prayer what he will lost. Prayer will not stick on him. It is not right to stop salary of teacher for this reason. Religion is personal matter but discipline of school is also important.

You have balanced two things right. If religion is a personal thing, abiding by the rules of the shcool and such places is also compulsory. I don't know how the things will fall evantually. It looks tricky at times.

If all people put the interest of the institution before any of their personal beliefs things would be alright....Most people want to carry their personal beliefs and preejudices with them all the time , even when they are in a public place ..

Is this not unconstitutional to force teachers and students to participate in prayer in Govt. school? What is meaning of secularism if 'prayer' is thrust upon. A teacher's salary was stopped as he refused to participate in prayer. However, High court favors him. He will get paid the salary that was denied to him

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/09/09/high-court-indicates-support-for-indian-teachers-right-not-to-pray/

A state funded school cannot force any act related to any religion . The teacher is right.

In wb one fifth years student denied to give contribution for teachers day and seniors ragged her and she died.- this is also happened.