CarolC:
robomatic, were there any other Jewish kids in your classes? Do you mind if I ask you what part of the country you were living in during the time of mandatory prayer?

A town near Boston, there were more Brians than Roberts in my class. When we moved there I was the only Jewish kid in my class, the only Jew a lot of those kids had seen, poor things. The Demographics changed over the following twenty years and a lot more Jews moved in.