The Bible vs. The Classroom:
A Practical Look at an Uneasy Truce

It has been almost five decades since the U.S. Supreme Court banned Bible reading in public schools. In 1963, one year after it struck down state-sponsored prayers in School District of Abington Township v. Schempp, it ruled that teachers violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment when they read Scripture aloud. The same decision also banned in-class recitation of the Lord’s Prayer