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Schools Matter: Religious Indoctination Provides Break from Test Prep: "It's a great day in South Carolina."

Schools Matter: Religious Indoctination Provides Break from Test Prep: "It's a great day in South Carolina.":

Religious Indoctination Provides Break from Test Prep: "It's a great day in South Carolina."

Story below the video from NYTimes. More details on rally in video are provided here by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

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JEFFERSON, S.C. — It has been nearly 50 years since the Supreme Court ruled that officially sponsored prayer in public schools violated the separation of church and state.

But in some corners of the country, especially in the rural South, open prayer and Christian symbols have never really disappeared from schools, with what legal advocates call brazen