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Royal ISD board adopts resolution affirming students' choice to pray in school
Summary
The Board adopted a resolution affirming the constitutional and legal right of students to choose to pray in school after an initial unseconded motion failed; one trustee voted nay on the adopted motion.
The board considered a resolution related to Senate Bill 11 and the role of prayer in schools. A motion by Melissa Woods to approve a resolution allowing a period of prayer and reading of the Bible was unseconded and failed. A separate motion by Elton Foster to approve a resolution affirming students’ constitutional and legal right to choose to pray in school passed; Melissa Woods voted Nay.
During discussion Trustee Traci Seward stated that the district encourages student-formed groups to pray and emphasized that prayer should not be government-led. The adopted motion records the board’s position affirming parental and student rights to private prayer but does not adopt a district-led prayer program or change district policy in the minutes.
