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In reply to the discussion: Please tell me, who did prayer in schools. I was 60's-70's west coast and we did not do prayer in [View all]Mediumsizedhand
(531 posts)120. I am seeing that. Looks like a scattered few in the South and surprising scattered few
in the Northeast, but like Penn.
Not any in the west. One in Texas but others say no so might be isolated. Same with a few spots in Midwest. It is very interesting.
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Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
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That is the feeling I have been getting. Not that it is "back" to prayer.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#28
Right, I've heard that for a long time: that prayer was "taken out of schools."
Beartracks
Oct 2017
#61
Well, not seeing a lot of 40's like my father, but some 50's and they didn't have it.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#64
I am seeing that. Looks like a scattered few in the South and surprising scattered few
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#120
Oh, bless your heart. I lived there for 3 years in early 1980s. Called my office in
Hoyt
Oct 2017
#85
Graduated in 1970 - we had prayer in school until the Supreme Court ruled it out
csziggy
Oct 2017
#24
50's and 60's in a Florida public school, yes, with the Lord's Prayer proscribed, until the
tableturner
Oct 2017
#36
We didn't have prayer but our fourth grade teacher passed out these 3 x 5 cards on which we told
jalan48
Oct 2017
#46
My parents didn't go to church but I went to three different ones until I stopped going in middle
jalan48
Oct 2017
#53
Easter was the only time I can remember enjoying church. I thought church was more social than
jalan48
Oct 2017
#79
It sounds like it was a good time to be in the church-a real sense of history too.
jalan48
Oct 2017
#90
Iowa in 60' and 70's - no praying in city schools, can't speak for rural schools.
SharonClark
Oct 2017
#48
See, that is what my father in the earlier years, and my experience was. Separation.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#52
I grew up in Iowa. I was in elementary school in the 70's and we had prayer
all american girl
Oct 2017
#69
My father was in Iowa, in the 40's and 50's, no prayer. So, more isolated.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#72
Cool to know, because Florida seems to be the state besides Mississippi and another Southern state.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#76
i did, i went to a catholic school thru ninth grade....then i went to public school and it quit.
spanone
Oct 2017
#83
We did pledge every morning. Always prayers before bigger events such as graduation.
blueinredohio
Oct 2017
#87
It was done in the 1950's, and then at least until 1961, as we read from the Bible when I was 12. It
WinkyDink
Oct 2017
#98
Milwaukee, 1970s-1980s. We did, however, sing very religious songs at the Christmas program
Still In Wisconsin
Oct 2017
#102
They had prayers in Texas schools long after the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional
struggle4progress
Oct 2017
#116
In grade school and middle school in the fifties, we started the morning with a Bible quote,
appleannie1943
Oct 2017
#132
I was in elementary school in Upstate NY in the '60s and I remember exactly when it stopped
Rhiannon12866
Oct 2017
#141
Well, being in Catholic schools from kindergarten (1959) to 1968.............
raven mad
Oct 2017
#143