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Transcript: Educator Vows to Keep Some Religion in Area Schools
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- June 4, 1996
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A district court has ruled the Pontotoc schools in Mississippi must
discontinue the practice of prayers over the school intercom, even
though students had requested it. An administrator says they may appeal.
ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: This is All Things Considered. I'm Robert Siegel.
LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: And I'm Linda Wertheimer.
A Mississippi school district which began each day with prayers
over the public address system will not do so when school resumes
next year. The Pontotoc County schools in northeastern Mississippi
had continued the practice despite a 1963 Supreme Court ruling which
banned prayer in public school until just last year when a ...