Part 4 — Board Powers and Elections Division 1 Board Powers
58 Religious and patriotic instruction or exercises
(a) prescribe religious instruction to be offered to its stude nts;
(b) prescribe religious exercises for its students;
(c) prescribe patriotic instruc tion to be offered to its students;
(d) prescribe patriotic exercises for its students;
(e) permit persons other than teachers to provide religious
instruction or exercises to its students.
(2) Where a teacher or other person providing religious instruction
or exercises or a teacher providing patriotic instruction or exercises
receives a written request signed by a parent of a student that the
student be excluded from religious instruction or exercises or
patriotic instruction or exercises, or both, the teacher or other
person shall, in accordance with the request of the parent, permit
the student
(a) to leave the classroom or place where the instruction or
exercises are taking place for the duration of the instruction
or exercises, or
(b) to remain in the classroom or place without taking part in
the instruction or exercises.