Correct-o, LG! Our teacher said it was to smoke out the Godless Communists, because after all, they wouldn’t say it!
And then we would know who they were - and not have anything to do with them.
That worked out well, didn’t it? LOLOLOL!
Well....it *worked* until God (prayer) was taken out of our public schools, in the early 60s....
That’s funny. They don’t make teachers like that anymore.