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'''Classroom prayer''' (within Europe and North America) is teacher-led, predominately Judeo-Christian, state-sanctioned [[prayer]] in schools. The Supreme Court case [[Engel v. Vitale]] (1962) banned classroom prayer from [[public schools]] in the [[United States]], and in Florida in 2009 school administrators were prosecuted for praying at a school-affiliated, adult-only event.<ref>http://www.baptistmessenger.com/story/30D869A1C3EB8104A87DD4CA8659031D . They were ultimately acquitted.</ref> Classroom prayer has been banned in [[government]] schools in most other Western European countries also.
Most private schools, even religious schools, imitate government and do not allow school-led classroom prayer. Some Christian institutions, including many Catholic schools, do allow teacher-led prayers at special school events, such as school assemblies, school sporting events, and graduation exercises, but rarely allow it in the classroom. Some language teachers at religious schools teach the students the Lord's Prayer or the Hail Mary in the respective language(s) and begin each day's instruction with one or the other.
Christian [[homeschooling]] classes, in contrast, often begin with a classroom prayer.
