My glorious padlet by Thomas Lloyd https://padlet.com/thomaslloyd2/zhdgbcj7o8x9jjje en-us 2023-09-21 17:27:48 UTC 2023-09-23 20:11:26 UTC hello@padlet.com the bored of Board of Education pass the law thomaslloyd2 https://padlet.com/thomaslloyd2/zhdgbcj7o8x9jjje/wish/2717467080 The Champaign Illinois Council on Religious Education was founded in 1940 by representatives of many religions, and the local school board later authorized it to offer free religious instruction. Parents were given consent cards to sign that permitted their child to take the classes, which were taught by Roman Catholic priests, Protestant teachers, and Jewish rabbis, all of whom were approved and supervised by the school superintendent. ]]> 2023-09-23 19:38:26 UTC https://padlet.com/thomaslloyd2/zhdgbcj7o8x9jjje/wish/2717467080 McCollum objects thomaslloyd2 https://padlet.com/thomaslloyd2/zhdgbcj7o8x9jjje/wish/2717474198 McCollum objects to the law stating that her son was bullied and pressured into joining the voluntary class by peers and teachers alike, that this goes against the first amendment, and that" The power exercised by the Champaign Council on Religious Education in its selection of instructors and the school superintendent's oversight of these instructors served to determine which religious faiths participated in the instructional program and constituted prior censorship of religion."
 
]]> 2023-09-23 19:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/thomaslloyd2/zhdgbcj7o8x9jjje/wish/2717474198 the court meating thomaslloyd2 https://padlet.com/thomaslloyd2/zhdgbcj7o8x9jjje/wish/2717477385 McCollum asked that the Board of Education be ordered to "adopt and enforce rules and regulations prohibiting all instruction in and teaching of all religious education in all public schools in Champaign District Number 71, and in all public school houses and buildings in said district when occupied by public schools".]]> 2023-09-23 20:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/thomaslloyd2/zhdgbcj7o8x9jjje/wish/2717477385 the outcome thomaslloyd2 https://padlet.com/thomaslloyd2/zhdgbcj7o8x9jjje/wish/2717478932 In December 1947, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear McCollum's petition for review and held oral arguments. The American Unitarian Association, the General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, the Synagogue Council of America, and the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty also submitted briefs in support of McCollum's position. On March 8, 1948, the Court declared the classes to be illegal, ruling 8-1 in favor of McCollum and declaring the programs to be unconstitutional.]]> 2023-09-23 20:10:33 UTC https://padlet.com/thomaslloyd2/zhdgbcj7o8x9jjje/wish/2717478932