CODE OF VIRGINIA COMPARATIVE RELIGION AS ELECTIVE COURSE (ยง 22.1-202.1) The Board of Education shall authorize local school boards to offer, as an elective in grades nine through 12 with appropriate credits toward graduation, a comparative religion class that focuses on the basic tenets, history, and religious observances and rites of world religions. HISTORY: 2004, cc. 939, 955; 2006, cc. 90, 161.