Beginning class in Public School with a prayer. Is it a violation of separation of church and state?

Public School shouldn’t start every morning with a Christian prayer, even if it is led by the teacher and is not mandatory for every student in the class. Where is the line between religious freedom and religious imposition? Students may be forced to do it because they feel confused or think they can be excluded for the rest of their classmates, so undoubtedly this case would violate the separation of church and state.

Teachers and students have their rights if they want to speak about religion matters (First Amendment, free speech) but teachers can’t allow students to pray out loud or with a group. If they allow Christian students to pray, they must to do the same with Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist students,... The United States is a diverse nation with people who follow many different faiths and all of them can’t be represented in the started of the classes.

Teachers should not defend just one religion in their classes and should keep out of it. Teachers’ work is to teach their corresponding field, they are not responsible for teaching students to pray. This work belongs to the parents who are the real responsible of it. Students can pray in Churches or at home with their families.

There is a time and a place for everything, and Public School is no one of them. If a family really wants that their children pray at school, they should look for a specific school, a private school which share their religion. But if they want to keep their children in a public school, they must to respect to the rest of the people who have different religious ideology, such as they want to be respected.