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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)52. See, that is what my father in the earlier years, and my experience was. Separation.
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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
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