Educational Court Cases Quiz 1

A group of Jehovah’s Witnesses, whose religion forbade them from saluting or pledging to symbols, including symbols of political institutions, defied the state law compelling students to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

• Engel v. Vitale (1962)

• Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)

• Everson v. BOE (1947)

• Pickering vs. Board of Education (1968)

• West Virginia State BOE v. Barnette (1942)

Local school boards (New Jersey) were allowed to reimburse parents for the cost of public transportation to and from schools. Including Catholic schools. A citizen complained that that was indirect aid to religious instruction at taxpayer expense, and that it essentially violated the separation of church and state.

• Engel v. Vitale (1962)

• Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)

• Everson v. BOE (1947)

• Pickering vs. Board of Education (1968)

• West Virginia State BOE v. Barnette (1942)

A New York State law required public schools to open each day with the Pledge of Allegiance and this prayer: “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country. Amen.”

• Engel v. Vitale (1962)

• Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)

• Everson v. BOE (1947)

• Pickering vs. Board of Education (1968)

• West Virginia State BOE v. Barnette (1942)

A state statute banned the teaching of human evolution as a fact in public schools (focusing on teaching creation instead).

• Engel v. Vitale (1962)

• Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)

• Everson v. BOE (1947)

• Pickering vs. Board of Education (1968)

• West Virginia State BOE v. Barnette (1942)

A teacher wrote a letter to the newspaper criticizing the BOE and was fired. The Supreme Court decided that the school board violated the teacher's First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

• Engel v. Vitale (1962)

• Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)

• Everson v. BOE (1947)

• Pickering vs. Board of Education (1968)

• West Virginia State BOE v. Barnette (1942)