was there any organized prayer in the school you attended? was creationism part of the curriculum?

Question

plz Explain

Answer 1

The afternoon of Sept 11, 2001, the school officials told us that there will be a pray gathering around the flag pole IF we wanted to. No one was forced to go. Every year, some students get together before school and have a Bible Study. When I was in Bio., we were taught Evolution but the teacher said that there are other theories out there and that she didn't believe in Evolution. I have a friend that is a science teacher in another school district and he teaches Intelligent Design (Creationism) as well. He has his students read "The Case for a Creator; Student Edition" by Lee Strobel.

Answer 2

I went to school in the Seventies. Some of my teachers were nuns. We got basic science instruction, nothing too complicated. Some of my schoolmates belonged to fundamentalist churches but I don't recall any objections to anything in the curriculum. And no, creationism was never mentioned and there was no public prayer.

At graduation ceremonies, they always had a Baptist or United Church minister and a Catholic priest (the community was pretty much split 50/50) and they each said a mostly ecumenical prayer, purely a formality.

Answer 3

Yes, in Tenn., every morning the whole school speaker system was used for a Morning Reading and then Silent Prayer. After wards, the principal would have his public announcements then classes began.
Creationism was not taught in school, but was the accepted norm I would have to say. Evolution was NOT taught! Even Charles Darwin denounced his own theory of Evolution and tried to get his Thesis' removed.

Answer 4

I went to Catholic Schools from 1st grade through High School and graduated in 1969. There was organized prayer and creationism.

Answer 5

No, the only organized prayer was organized by students, stuff like "Meet You at the Flag Pole"

And the only mention of creationism is that it is a pseudo science.

Answer 6

I love how people are still claiming that Darwin denounced his own theory of evolution. God, that is rich.
When I went to public school, we neither prayed nor learned about creationism. And curiously, when I went to Christian school we had bible class that everyone was required to attend along with weekly chapel. But in our science classes, we were indeed taught evolution.

Answer 7

No. Nobody was ignorant enough to believe religion belonged in school. I don't even think evolution was part of the curriculum then.

I never heard anyone mention praying during school for any reason.

Answer 8

For a year yeah. I went to a private school for a little while. beyond that, we had prayer on thanksgiving in my public school as a 2nd grader. And at all the sports games. But in 5th grade when we had to pick a chapter from a book to read in class to ourselves, i got in trouble for brining my bible. The teacher made me take it home and read mrs piggle-wiggle.

My mother can remember morning prayer in her public school.

My grandmother remembers evolution being a crack pot theory that the school board laughed at.

Answer 9

I've visited the elementary school my father attended and it was refreshing to see that Creationism and Christian values were a staple of their curriculum.

Though it's been at least a decade since then; I imagine all of that is no longer being taught.

In my highschool, liberal teachers were not running rampant, but it was obvious that evolution MUST be taught, otherwise they wouldn't be 'tolerant' of other possibilities.

Answer 10

This was our daily schedule:

We took attendance; we recited the Lord's Prayer; we said the Pledge of Allegiance; and then we opened our books and studied evolution.

Somehow, some way, we survived.