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I never heard of that.

 

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Who remembers George Washington's portrsit in every classroom?

 

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Who remembers George Washington's portrsit in every classroom?

Yeah I've seen that in lots of movies, I can't recall ever having that in any of my classrooms though.

 

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Who remembers George Washington's portrsit in every classroom?

And of course saying the Pledge of Allegiance every morning.

 

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And of course saying the Pledge of Allegiance every morning.

We'd say that and the Lord's Prayer. This was in the early '70's, and I don't know if it had to do with atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair's lawsuits, but apparently there were legal battles over injunctions or whatever going on. One day they announced we couldn't pray anymore. Within a couple of weeks they said we could start praying again. Sometime later they said we couldn't pray, but we would have a moment of silence. I don't remember how it ended up for us. I assume kids don't pray today.

 

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Texas has it's own pledge of allegiance to it's flag. A few other states have pledges, but Texas is the only place where it's required to be recited by students.

 

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I didn't know that so looked it up. Short and sweet.

Texas Pledge
"Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee,
Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible."

 

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I didn't know that so looked it up. Short and sweet.

Texas Pledge
"Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee,
Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible."

Personally I'm not a fan of the grammar. In the first line, the subject switches from third person to first person. Oh well.

 

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Yeah I've seen that in lots of movies, I can't recall ever having that in any of my classrooms though.

PINELLAS County, Florida. Delicious school lunches, too.

 

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We'd say that and the Lord's Prayer. This was in the early '70's, and I don't know if it had to do with atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair's lawsuits, but apparently there were legal battles over injunctions or whatever going on. One day they announced we couldn't pray anymore. Within a couple of weeks they said we could start praying again. Sometime later they said we couldn't pray, but we would have a moment of silence. I don't remember how it ended up for us. I assume kids don't pray today.

Those were the days! At one school(late fifties) each class prayed before eating lunch.

 

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EUCLID ELEMENTARY had old flip-top desks with cut-outs for ink wells.

 

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PINELLAS County, Florida. Delicious school lunches, too.

"delicious school lunches" - your rarely hear those words together. Must have been an upscale private school.

EUCLID ELEMENTARY had old flip-top desks with cut-outs for ink wells.

Cool. Not sure I've ever even seen one of those in real life.

 

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"delicious school lunches" - your rarely hear those words together. Must have been an upscale private school.

Cool. Not sure I've ever even seen one of those in real life.

You.d have to have been born in the forties! In the fifties ordinary public schools served lunches. Corn dogs were called pronto pups. Yellow rice and chicken was delicious! Cherry cobbler, etc. for dessert. But Mom usually sent us to school with balogna sandwiches to avoid 35 cents a day for lunch! Sandwiches were wrapped in waxed paper; No Zip Loc bags!

 

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A Visual History of School Desks

See how much the school desk has evolved over time to adapt to the needs of classrooms.

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