"[3] The conscience clause did not exempt students from Saturday classes or any other day when their religious creed require attendance.
[6] Critics refer to it as a "secular intrusion", claiming that it turns education into mere instruction.
[7] Similar policy was adopted in some British colonies such as the Leeward Islands, which introduced its own Education Act in 1890.
This law reinforced governmental participation in governance of schools that receive public funding but also allowed learners invoking the conscience clause without suffering discrimination in their lessons.
Telang, which recommended that private schools that receive grants from the government adopt it.