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Religion In America
'Shared Time7 Gains Support
Of Protestant Church Leaders
By LOUIS CASSELS
UPI Correspondent
By ruling prayer out of
public schools, the Supreme
Court last week spurred
Protestants to take a fresh in
terest in the "shared time"
approach to education.
The "shared time" idea was
put forward by Dr. Harry L.
Stearns, superintendent of
public schools at Englcwood,
N. J. He proposed that chil
dren be allowed to take some
courses in public schools and
others in the church-related
schools.
The plan has been widely
discussed during the past year
by religious leaders.
Until now, however, pri
mary emphasis has been
placed on what "shared time"
would mean to Catholics. It
has been pointed out that pa
rochial school students could
attend public schools for in
struction in such "neutral"
subjects as math, foreign lan
guages, home economics, shop
and physical education. This
would relieve the financial
pressure on parochial schools,
and give tax-paying Catholic
parents the satisfaction of get
ting some use out of the pub
lic schools they help to sup
port. Interests Some
Some Protestant leaders
have found "shared time'' at
tractive as a way of heading
off Catholic demands for di
rect public aid to parochial
schools, which they regard as
unconstitutional.
But there has been relative
ly little discussion of the op
portunities which "shared
time" would open for Prot
estant parents who want
their children to receive an
adequate religious education.
Dr. Stearns had hoped,
when he first advanced his
idea, that many Protestants
would welcome the chance to
put their children into rcli
gious schools for several hours
each day, without going all
the way into a system of Prot
estant parochial schools.
If Protestants haven't
shown much interest in this
possibility in the past, one
reason is that many of them
have been clinging to the be
lief that children could be
given at least a measure of
religious orientation In pub
lic schools. .
Belief Dies
The Supreme Court blasted
that belief when it ruled, 6-1
that it is unconstiutional for
any state to prescribe religi
ous exercises in its public
schools.
The elimination of these
widely prevalent "opening ex
ercises" may not be any great
loss to religious education. It
is hard to believe that a child
learns much about God from
the rote recital of a required
prayer or from hearing a fel
low student mumble through
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the reading of a few verses
from a psalm.
But prayer and Bible read
ing in public schools have
had a tremendous symbolic
value for many Protestant
parents. They have made it
possible for parents to per
suade themselves that the
modest amount of religious
training which their children
received at home and at Sun
day School was somehow be
ing "reinforced" by the pub
lic school program.
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The Supreme Court ruling
means that Protestant parents
must now face up to reality.
And the reality is that the
average Protestant child is
not receiving much religious
education. Even if he attends
Sunday School faithfully he
gets only about 25 hours of
solid instruction a year.
Some Protestants have re
acted to the ruling by de
nouncing the Supreme Court
and talking about a Consti
tutional amendment to permit
public school religious exer
cises which parents have
found so comforting.
Others, however, are al
ready looking beyond this
kind of emotional response to
see what constructive steps
the Protestant churches can
take to provide children with
the kind of religiously orien
ted educational experience
which is now quite obviously
ruled out of the public schools.
Two Solutions
One solution is to start
building a lot of full-time
Protestant parochial schools.
There was a strong trend in
this direction even before the
court's ruling and it will
doubtless be accelerated now.
Another solution is "shared
lime." Since most Protestant
cnurcnes already nave exten
sive classroom facilities which
are idle six days a week, they
would need only to hire a
staff of professional teachers.
A curriculum might include
English, history and other
courses with a high "value" i
content, as well as explicitly
religious courses, such as Bi
ble study. !
Will Protestants adopt this
option on a large scale? Prot
estant leaders to whom this
question was put said they
can't tell yet what -the ulti
mate answer will be. But
there was general agreement
that Protestants now have a
new and compelling motive
for examining the pros and
cons of "shared time.''
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