Sunday school – Monday through Friday: Oklahoma joins states with ‘release time’ laws letting K-12 kids leave school for religious lessons
- Written by Charles J. Russo, Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
All packed for a day of reading, writing, arithmetic – and religion?artisteer/iStock via Getty Images PlusChildren in American public schools traditionally learned the three R’s: reading, writing and arithmetic. Today, students in more than half of the U.S. states can study a fourth R: religion.
Oklahoma is the most recent state to...