My Country – Putting the Bible in Public Schools After New York created a secular education system, schools continued to debate religious documents in their classrooms. In 1953, the Board of Education in Rutherford, New Jersey, allowed the Gideons to distribute copies of the Bible to all its children. Children became like that drawer next …
My Country – The Establishment Clause On March 8, 1948, McCollum v. Board of Education held that the use of public school facilities by religious organizations to give religious instruction to school children violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. What is the Establishment Clause? Our country has had many arguments about the separation of …