Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 21. BRIEF PERIOD OF QUIET REFLECTION

20-2-1051. Participation not to be regulated or required.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

No teacher, principal, school board, or any other person may require or prescribe any particular method or manner in which a child shall participate in any period of silent prayer or meditation, but each child shall be absolutely free to participate therein or not, in such manner or way as such child shall personally desire, consistent with his or her beliefs.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Ga. L. 1969, p. 488, § 1.

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1992, a comma was inserted following “board”.

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