WI there was still prayer in schools?

OK, I was in the fourth grade when school prayer was outlawed in 1963. But the local schools in Oklahoma City kept saying the prayer until 1965. They used the "Protestant" version, with the last lines that sounded totally foreign to anybody with a Catholic background like mine: "For thine is the kingdom... whatever" For me, this was just another pledge of allegiance; you just comply. And you shut up after "deliver us from evil; amen, " because the Lord's Prayer had already ended. Now, if I had adult knowledge and knew what they were doing was illegal, and reported it to whomever, my US military family might have found a burning cross on the lawn.
 
Had regular prayers in assembly in every UK school I was in.
I don't think religious doctrine (or even denomination) ever came up.
All in all it just involved being silent while a teacher read out the lord's prayer or something similar. I guess you might be offended if you were a militant atheist, but really it was only a waste of your time. Which arguably sums up school.

It depends on who is leader the prayer. If schools had to get members of the clergy in who were actually interested then it might be very different. As it was having fairly areligious teachers go through the motions to fairly areligious pupils made it a formality and nothing more.
Yeah... my old secondary school changed, a few years ago, to a "technology college", and this year has changed again, having been bought up by one of those Christian foundations... it's now an "Oasis Academy".

(these guys)

Luckily, my sis will be in Year 11 this year... so not too much of the Christian message" will be shoved down her throat...

I don't see how they square these two things:

"Here at Oasis, we don’t ask people to behave a certain way or believe certain things before we work with them."

and

"Oasis is rooted in, and motivated by, a Christian ethos. As such, we believe that the funny bunch that is the human race is more than just another species on this planet. We believe that every human being – regardless of age, sexuality, nationality or creed - is a unique being, created by a God who loves them unconditionally."

Don't see how you can square the "God made us" belief with "we don't care what you believe."

Maybe it's just me.
 
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