Religion in the classroom: Where the faithful and the ACLU can agree

[MineralMan]

32. Such a course was not offered in my high school.

Instead, we had a "religious release" program, where students were released from school for an hour once a week. During that hour, they went to a church of their choice for religious education. They, meaning those who wished to do so and had permission from their parents.

I didn't count, but about 75% of students participated. We had that program in elementary school, as well.

I didn't participate in it. Instead we stayed in our normal classrooms or went to the school library. I remember sixth grade, too, when that hour was used by my teacher to give us lessons in Spanish. I think there were four students in that classroom, and we actually learned some decent conversational Spanish during that school year. In high school, we spent that hour at the school library.

Sunday School on Wednesday was what that amounted to. The churches loved it. Some even sent a bus to take kids to their religious release program.

I learned conversational Spanish.