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Texas Education Code § 26.010

Exemption from Instruction

Parental Rights and Responsibilities

(a) A parent is entitled to remove the parent's child temporarily from a class or other school activity that conflicts with the parent's religious or moral beliefs if the parent presents or delivers to the teacher of the parent's child a written statement authorizing the removal of the child from the class or other school activity. A parent is not entitled to remove the parent's child from a class or other school activity to avoid a test or to prevent the child from taking a subject for an entire semester.

(b) This section does not exempt a child from satisfying grade level or graduation requirements in a manner acceptable to the school district and the agency.

Official text of the Texas Education Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.