Spiritual and religious issues in the US School Curriculum: A first amendment perspective

Abstract

This article provides a legal analysis of the protection of religious freedom and the right of parents to ensure their children are educated in accordance with their religious and moral beliefs in the US education system. The context is the possibility that students at public schools might practice yoga, meditation or mindfulness as part of the curriculum, even though such activities could involve indoctrination depending on how they are taught, thus contravening the principle of state neutrality and/or the separation of church and state established in the First Amendment to the American Constitution.