Transcript: Educator Vows to Keep Some Religion in Area Schools

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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 ...

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