People Ex Rel. Lewis v. Graves

Persons interested in religious instruction of the children in the public schools of the State have recently inaugurated a plan which has been put in operation in the city of White Plains and, with varying details, elsewhere. As it operates in White Plains, the plan' is to excuse from school attendance children between the ages of seven and fourteen years, on the written request of parents, one day in each week, for the last half-hour of the school session, which is a study period, so that they may attend one of the several denominational church schools which give religious instruction during…