Ohio students are now eligible to receive lessons from a Satanic Temple as part of the state’s “religious release” program, in which students may be excused from school to attend an off-campus course on religion.

The Satanic Temple will begin offering a religious studies program at a public elementary school in Ohio after a parent’s request. Seeking an alternative to the school’s Christian release program, a concerned parent at Edgewood Elementary school in Marysville,