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On the recordFebruary 3, 1994
They can say that you cannot have compulsory prayer, you cannot have school-led prayer, you cannot have teacher-led prayer. I do not know whether or not the Court has said, if school starts at 8:15 in the morning, that at 9:30 Susie or Jimmy cannot say a silent prayer to themselves right in the middle of class. Maybe the Court said that; maybe it has not. But if the Court has said that, the local school board would not have the constitutional right to stop it.
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Robert Packwood
Republican · Oregon
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The speaker discusses the legality of prayer in schools and the role of the Court's decisions.

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