[moneyrunner]

”I left District 26 grade school in '49.. If ANYone, child, parent or teacher, had ran around our school promoting any specific type of religion, some sore noses would have resulted at the next PTA meeting.”

If you are right, your schools were intolerant even then.

I received a small copy of the New Testament at my public school. So did my classmates. I wonder which one of us had the most common experience; your cosmopolitan liberalism or my Middle American patriotism and love of God and country?

[tpaine]

I left District 26 grade school in '49..
If ANYone, child, parent or teacher, had ran around our school promoting any specific type of religion, some sore noses would have resulted at the next PTA meeting.
It never would have gotten to court in those days.
65 -tpaine-

If you are right, your schools were intolerant even then.

It's 'intolerent' for a parent to object to having others religions brought into a public school to influence his child? Are you daft?
My catholic mother would have been outraged if I would have been 'promoted' by protestants in kindergarden, -- and vice versa.

I received a small copy of the New Testament at my public school. So did my classmates. I wonder which one of us had the most common experience; your cosmopolitan liberalism or my Middle American patriotism and love of God and country?

District 26 was in White Bear Lake, Minn, hardly cosmopolitian... - And I doubt many in kids in middle america had bibles placed on their desks in public schools. -- Whose bible was used?