Margaret -- you've left out the actual issue that arose at the Peel mtg... apparently the kids wanted to write their own sermons..

There's quite a difference between a 20-min. prayer & the inclusion of students sermonizing.. 

Sermonizing seems to imply that more & more of the 'secular space & time' of a public educational institution becomes the facility of one 'collective'.. 

 . . in Peel, a publicly financed school appears to be expected by some to conform to the demands of 'one collective' where doing so may set in motion a reduction of 'the freedom of existential rights' of others who are not indoctrinated into the 'religious effort'. 

A possibility exists that sermonized strictures may place expectations on students whose families do not ascribe to what they may describe as an 'abstract belief system'.
 
Sure, a 20-min. prayer should be accommodated . . But, student-led sermonizing should be reserved for appropriate spaces such as a mosque or home... 

That's About It, Marg..