Paul Burka, Texas Monthly editor, puts it best: "I’m a history major. I don’t approve of rewriting or editing history. My solution to this issue, which sparked a two-hour floor fight in the Legislature [ed: in 2007?], is to have an exhibit in the Bullock Museum about the contribution of the Confederate Widow’s Pension Fund." (source)
It is wildly inappropriate to push "school administrators and officials" into a role traditionally held by parents and churches.
Courts have consistently upheld personal or student-initiatied right to prayer. What is unconstitutional is when student-initiated prayer becomes de facto policy, such as what brought about Santa Fe Independent School Dist. v. Doe.
The proposed amendment is dangerous. It would tacitly endorse public schooling on a federal level, creating a "gateway drug" to enhancing federal oversight of schools. Also, contemporary interpretaion of the First Amendment strongly defends most student-initiated prayer as free speech and defends against compulsory prayer.
Key founding documents in fact have minimal references to religion. There is no evidence of censorship.
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