Well ... when I was in school, we had prayer in school (that was the Dallas, Texas school district). I even remember one of my assignments in school being the memorization (and recitation) of one of the Psalms.
AND THEN ... all of a sudden ... that quit, and no one (in school) said why!
But we know why — the God-haters have always been at it, not wanting to hear anything from God, or His Word, the Bible - or from His Son, Jesus the Messiah of Israel.
I went to school in Dallas myself. :)
We all said the Pledge of Allegiance and nobody ran around tearing their hair out because they were offended.
We all prayed and nobody wailed that they were down trodden.
So do you think that ONE person...Madilyn Murray O’Hare or whatever her name was, had such a loud voice that it opened the door for all of this craziness to become more overt and acceptable?
Reading the article about the Peanuts dilemma it must have been going on for a long time...just behind the curtain (so to speak).