Originally Posted by
SusieQOH
I went to Catholic school until college and was unaware that they said prayers in public schools back in the day. How would you determine which ones? You couldn'texpect Jewish people to recite Christian prayers could you?
Separation of church and state was supposed to be the rule.
As for me, I said enough prayers in school to last me 10 lifetimes
Yes they could and yes they did. Each classroom had a King James Bible in it. We were ostracized for being "not Christian" so we played along to remove another source of misery. But still we could think of our own prayers while reciting the other.