Religion in schools-- one Eisenhower way...
I may have mentioned that I went to Martin Luther HS, starting in 1961
Ike was just barely out of office, but we still had the Russians as the badest guys on the planet. Russian satellites and bombs seemed to have the ability to wipe us out, and no expense was spared to get us, and keep us, on top.
What MLHS got out of the deal were federally funded science labs. We got bio, physic, and chem labs with all the fixins and no one brought up our Missouri Synod conservative roots. The Bio lab was told (by the school, not the Feds) not to teach the fist few chapters of the text book, but that's the only thing "religious" we were exposed to. The job was to educate us, and that it did.
This was my first experience with gummint education, aside from city schools, and everyone thought it was just fine. It allowed our little school to stand proudly next to Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, and other local hotshot schools. And the gummint neither endorsed nor criticized our odd little beliefs
In the years since, what the hell happened when every time the gummint opens its yap about education a fight has to start...
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