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?
No, are you?
Apparently you have a reading comprehension problem. The report states that it was the schoolteachers and administrators that prevented the little boy from handing out his pencils when the other children were handing out their presents. Anyone who makes a fuss about a four-year-old handing his classmates little pencils with the inscription “Jesus loves the little children” is a nut! Daft! Not the sharpest tool in the shed! A few fries short of a Happy Meal! And so is the person who defends this sort of Orwellian mind control, and I do mean you!
”My catholic mother would have been outraged if I would have been 'promoted' by protestants in kindergarden, -- and vice versa.”
You also appear to have a writing problem. I have no idea what that sentence means. “Promoted by Protestants?” Does that mean that the school administrators at District 29 were Protestants and your mother was outraged that they promoted you? Was your mother a Catholic bigot who insisted on having her little boy promoted by Catholics? I’m betting that your mother had more sense. Based on your ability to express yourself, I have a suspicion that you left District 29 as a result of social promotion.