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Constitutional Law

Apr. 30, 2015

Downward facing dogma? Court disagrees

California public school children perfecting their "lotus position" - and their parents - need not worry about the future of yoga instruction in their physical education classes.

California public school children perfecting their "lotus position" - and their parents - need not worry about the future of yoga instruction in their physical education classes. As the 4th District Court of Appeal ruled earlier this month in Sedlock v. Baird, 235 Cal. App. 4th 874 (2015), yoga in the public schools does not infringe students' religious freedom, because yoga is not a religious doctrine.

While this may have been the ...

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