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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]scarletlib
(3,411 posts)Late 50's.
The public elementary school I attended was almost 100% Protestant at the time and probably reflected the makeup of most of the other schools. There was one Catholic kid- a boy who was, in my young eyes, persecuted by the the other boys. There was one Jewish girl, Debbie, who came into my 3rd grade class.
Our teacher in 3rd grade was great--she always made a point of having Debbie share information about her religious traditions whenever she could. Therefore we 3rd graders in her class learned about Hanukkah and Passover. She made sure Debbie felt included in our class activities but I am not sure how she handled the prayer part.
When I was in 4th grade the Gideon organization visited the school and gave every child a copy of the New Testament.
We also would have to memorize or read Bible verses out loud in some of our classes. "Jesus wept" was always a favorite.
So yeah, we definitely had religion in our public school at that time.
So yeah I remember all of that very well.