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Bill O'Rights has it right. You can fall to your knees any time you're not otherwise engaged. But school-led prayer (as used to be the case) is no longer permitted in public classrooms. This is how it should be; you may agree with morning prayer, but what about the Muslims or Buddhists or Harre Krishnas or Atheists? They don't want to pray to God every morning, or at the very least not like you do and they shouldn't be made to.
Muslims are allowed to pray for the same reason Sikhs are allowed to wear their turbans in places where hats aren't commonly allowed. A Muslim is required by his faith to pray to Allah five times per day; Christian faith in general requires that you pray, but doesn't set the times to do so or have a specific time of day that it must occur. Christian ideology is much more flexible that way.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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