DeKalb County, Illinois, Community School District (prior to 1967) endorsed this poem to be recited in its kindergarten classes:
<We thank you for the flowers so sweet; We thank you for the food we eat; We thank you for the birds that sing; We thank you for everything.> 1967IL001
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American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement.
1967IL001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). DeKalb County, Illinois, Community School District prior to 1967, kindergarten poem. DeSpain v. DeKalb County Comm. School Dist., 384 F. 2d 655, 835 (N.D. Ill. 1966), cert. denied, 390 U.S. 906 (1967).