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"so you re saying it could be gotten around if there is a policy for release time?” Mrs. Massie asked the superintendent when there were no further questions.
With his reaffirmation that a release policy would remove the Constitutional problems involved with allowing religious education during school time, board member Nancy Reeve asked for the superintendent’s recommendation on the Children’s Bible Mission request.
“My recommendation is not to do it,” Dr. Gangel said. “ Based on the way the request came in, you’d be in an extremely difficult legal situation.”
“You also heard that we can establish a policy for release time,” Mrs. Massie reminded her fellow board members.
Mr. Oliver maintained that the two issues - CBM’s request and a release policy - should be addressed separately. “We should decide yes or no” on the “rolling chapel” and then address “what type of policy we’re going to have for fiiture requests of this nature.”
Mr. Nichols’ motion to deny CBM’s proposal was seconded by Mr. Lee.
“I don’t think that 45 minutes or an hour out of the schedule is going to do that much damage to the children’s education, so I take that argument with a grain of salt,” said Mr. Oliver. He noted that he’d received telephone calls from both sides on this issue: those strongly in f^ypr of allowing optional religious education during the school day and those strongly opposed. “There’s not going to be a right answer that makes ev
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