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Constitutional Law Keyed to Choper
McCollum v. Board of Education
Citation:
333 U.S. 203 (1948)Facts
In 1940, the Champaign Council on Religious Education, a voluntary association of Jewish, Roman Catholic, and Protestant representatives, obtained permission from the Board of Education to offer religious classes in public schools for grades four through nine. Classes were held weekly during regular school hours in public school classrooms. Religious teachers were employed by the Council but required approval from the school superintendent. Students attended only with written parental consent, and those not participating continued secular studies elsewhere in the building. The religious instruction was sectarian in nature, with separate classes for different faiths. Attendance records were kept and reported to secular teachers. Vashti McCollum, an atheist parent whose child attended the Champaign public schools, challenged this practice as unconstitutional, arguing it violated the separation of church and state.
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