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Despite such rhetoric, most school administrators remained fairly conservative. A 1934 study found that the 850 local school superintendents in the United States were 98 percent native born and 90 percent Anglo-Saxon in background. Almost all were from rural, Protestant backgrounds, overwhelmingly Republican, and members of local business organizations, such as the Chamber of Commerce. Eighty percent agreed with the idea that pledging allegiance to the flag should be mandatory, and 84 percent agreed that teachers should omit from the classroom "any facts likely to arouse in the minds of the students questions or doubts concerning the justice of our social order." As the economy slowly rebounded from the Depression, school superintendents and administrators mended fences with local business elites, restoring much of the cooperation between the two groups that had been found in the 1920s. Glenn Frank, in fact, became so friendly with businessmen in the Republican Party that...
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