Please tell me, who did prayer in schools. I was 60's-70's west coast and we did not do prayer in

[fierywoman]

40. Late 50's-late 60's north shore LI 85% Jewish neighborhood: no prayers.

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Added: I'd thought I'd remembered this correctly: the school district I was in was Union Free District #9 and apparently it was the one that brought the school prayer issue all the way to the Supreme Court! from Wikipedia

Seven years later, Steven I. Engel, a Jew, was upset to see his son’s hands clasped and his head bent in prayer. He told his son that this was “not the way we say prayers.” Engel, a founding member of the New York Civil Liberties Union, would bring action along with Daniel Lichtenstein, Monroe Lerner, Lenore Lyons, and Lawrence Roth, all parents of children in the Long Island, New York public school system, against Union Free School District No. 9 for its adoption and subsequent prescription of the so-called "Regent's prayer", arguing that it constituted the state-sponsored establishment of religion in violation of citizens’ First Amendment rights via the Fourteenth Amendment.[5]