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SCHOOL FACING
SUIT ON HYMN
The Board of Education was
told yesterday that it faces a pos
sible lawsuit because kinder-
* gar ten pupils are taught to sing
a song of thanks to God during
the mid-morning milk recess.
Simultaneously, . it was indicated
that a test may also be
made whether grammar school
students can be required to sing
Christmas carols in school rooms.
Irving W. Breyer, legal adviser
to the board, said that the parents
of a child at Alamo Grammar
School, Twenty-third Avenue
and California-street, had protested
the child's singing of the
following song: .
"We thank Thee, God, for food
we eat,
For
family
and
friends
we
meet;
For books we read and songs we
sing.
We thank Thee, God, for everything."
The protest, Breyer said, was
based on provisions of the State
constitution, education code and
the city charter which prohibit
the teaching of sectarian or denominational
doctrines in common
schools. The parents presumably
are atheists.
He told the board, however,
that, in his opinion, tne song in
question did not violate the law
because it only referred to God
and not as a sectarian teaching.
—San Francisco
27/ll/ , 46.
"Examiner,"
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