Word: vashti
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School boards and schoolteachers all over the U.S. were worried. The Supreme Court had ruled 8 to 1 for Unbeliever Vashti McCollum in her suit against the school board of Champaign, Ill. The court ruled that the board must stop making religious instruction available to its pupils in the school building and on school time. It also laid down the ruling that religious instruction in public schools was a violation of the First Amendment. Now the question was: Would the court also hold that religious education during "released time" was unconstitutional...
...should the state go in supporting religious education? Or should the state support such education at all? In the white marble temple of the U.S. Supreme Court last week, a new engagement was fought in this running battle. Atheist Vashti McCollum had a final hearing in her suit to stop the board of education in Champaign, Ill. from allowing religious instructions at her son's school (TIME...
Children may now legally study the Bible in Illinois' public schools. After due consideration, the State Supreme Court has said it is all right. But Mrs. Vashti McCollum, 33, an angry atheist of Champaign, who had brought the subject up, planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her eleven-year-old son James had been "embarrassed," she said, because he was the only pupil in his class who had declined the voluntary Bible lesson. Religion, fumed Mrs. McCollum, is "a racket based on fear and prejudice and a chronic disease of the imagination contracted in childhood...
...case was prosaically listed ". . . Vashti McCollum v. Board of Education . . ." but it had some of the same features that made the Scopes "monkey trial" a sideshow of the '20s. And, though the decision would immediately affect only the citizens of Champaign...
...case involved a basic educational issue: should religion be taught in public schools? The McCollum in the case was the slight, 32-year-old wife of an assistant professor of horticulture at the University of Illinois, Mrs. Vashti McCollum. Last year, she complained, her son Terry had been "embarrassed" and "ostracized" by his schoolmates because she refused to let him attend the school's religious classes (Jews and Catholics usually leave school to go to classes of their own). Mrs. McCollum sued to have the religious training banned altogether. Said she: the classes waste taxpayers' money, and discriminate...