denominational school

California’s constitution places a high wall between church and state, explicitly barring spending public money “for the support of any sectarian or denominational school, or any school not under the exclusive control of the officers of the public schools.”

A burning question at present is whether the national school should be preferred to the denominational school.

Where the denominationalist case passes from a reasonable request for justice to the assertion of an insolent and intolerable claim to control the opinions of others is when it requires that any school, which was founded for denominational purposes, shall be maintained by public money as a denominational school, with denominational teachers, for the instruction of Nonconformist children.

According to the act, a denominational school must either pay at least half of its own building costs or accept public control, government-appointed teachers, and an agreed syllabus.

Miss Sanborn, it appeared, had been fitting herself at the denominational school to go out as a missionary.