Hopkins v. Hamden Board of Education

The plaintiffs are school children who attend public schools in the town of Hamden and their parents. The defendants are the board of education of the town of Hamden and the state board of education. The complaint in this action seeks to obtain temporary and permanent injunctions against the use of a printed curriculum by the state board of education in authorizing, and the Hamden board of education in teaching, a course entitled “Health Education.” It is a course which requires compulsory attendance and includes, in addition to physical education, a comprehensive and planned sequential study…