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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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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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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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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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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!
Lol ... We didn't even have the option of buying lunch!
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We all brown bagged it ... usually with "baloney", or cheese, or PB&J sandwiches ... but our parents did pay for us to have milk (chocolate :hearteyes: or white) with our sandwiches.
 
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Lol ... We didn't even have the option of buying lunch!
^_^

We all brown bagged it ... usually with "baloney", or cheese, or PB&J sandwiches ... but our parents did pay for us to have milk (chocolate :hearteyes: or white) with our sandwiches.
Yes, Mom paid for milk. Chocolate wasn't available. I wish I had asked hubby what the kids had for lunch in the one room schoolhouse he attended! The only information he told me was that he got in trouble for deliberately placing his crayons in a sunny windowsill. He probably walked to school. I wonder if he walked home or to his babysitter's for lunch.
 
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Lol ... We didn't even have the option of buying lunch!
^_^

We all brown bagged it ... usually with "baloney", or cheese, or PB&J sandwiches ... but our parents did pay for us to have milk (chocolate :hearteyes: or white) with our sandwiches.

Yes, Mom paid for milk. Chocolate wasn't available. I wish I had asked hubby what the kids had for lunch in the one room schoolhouse he attended! The only information he told me was that he got in trouble for deliberately placing his crayons in a sunny windowsill. He probably walked to school. I wonder if he walked home or to his babysitter's for lunch.
In grade school we could buy a tray of food or bring lunch. I have a memory of when I had a ham sandwich and a Jewish friend asked to trade his sandwich for mine because he'd never tasted ham. Another friend was saying not to give it to him because his parents didn't want him to eat ham. I didn't know nuthin about religion or anything so I didn't see the harm. I traded with him. :sorry:

After school my mom asked me how I liked my lunch. I told her I'd traded her sandwich with my friend. My folks knew he was Jewish so mom said "Ooh, you shouldn't do that. Don't do it again". But my dad was laughing out loud - "You gave your ham sandwich to the Goldstein kid?!" ROFL

One year In junior high they introduced the option to buy bag lunches of cheeseburgers, fries and milkshake. I recall there was some controversy about it with some of the parents, but for me it was YEAH!

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In grade school we could buy a tray of food or bring lunch. I have a memory of when I had a ham sandwich and a Jewish friend asked to trade his sandwich for mine because he'd never tasted ham. Another friend was saying not to give it to him because his parents didn't want him to eat ham. I didn't know nuthin about religion or anything so I didn't see the harm. I traded with him. :sorry:

After school my mom asked me how I liked my lunch. I told her I'd traded her sandwich with my friend. My folks knew he was Jewish so mom said "Ooh, you shouldn't do that. Don't do it again". But my dad was laughing out loud - "You gave your ham sandwich to the Goldstein kid?!" ROFL

One year In junior high they introduced the option to buy bag lunches of cheeseburgers, fries and milkshake. I recall there was some controversy about it with some of the parents, but for me it was YEAH!

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LOL! (PHOTO).
 
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