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Show Plan Of Religi0ll8 Teaching Handed To Supreme Court The Supreme Court 0f United States recently heard gumcnts in a case involving ligious teaching in public srJ T under a plan which perm teachers of various faiths in. to the schools for the purl me conducting religious clai , thirty minutes once a it h Protestant, Catholic and ish instructors, it seems , took the work in 1940 but t ish classes were abandoned E cause there was not a su fi number of pupils seekinffiS lion. Proponents of the V Uc-it Uc-it is open to all sects on a w y of equality and that : PSSf Jf enroll voluntarily wffifcj sent of their parents. - n" The case" under discus came from Illinois. It differX plans operating in several states where pupils are Efc released time'' for attending 2 hgious classes in other fh? school buildings. It secms S a mother, described as an "Sh eist," objected to the prarS alleging that it constfi: threat to the traditional seiL tion of church and State The decision of the High m bunal will be awaited with con siderable interest all over SJ country. It may have a bearSS on the controversial question 0 bus transportation for student' otje igious schools. Approval o the plan might permit subsequent developments to bring about m hgious instruction in DUbi schools, but disapproval of Z plan should not be considered ! disavowal of the value of relie ious instruction. If the plan does not meet thf approval of the Court, the reiec tion would be pointing at the methods and places of Instruction, Instruc-tion, rather than the nature of the instruction itself. ObvioiW public schools operate only five days a week, and every child has ample time to secure relic ious instruction at the church ol his, or her, choice. In fact, in many communities, churches of fer abundant religious instruction instruc-tion through Sundav School classes and other activities for young people. |