Opponents of legislation allowing the teaching of the Bible in Georgia public schools may start breathing a bit easier—despite the landmark court case allowing public schools in Georgia to offer classes on the Bible, the elective courses have generated very little interest among students.

The classes, “Literature and History of the Old Testament Era” and “Literature and History of the New Testament Era”, were approved by the Georgia Board of Education as non-required elective courses in March 2007. Although course is to be taught, according to a bill passed in the state legislature, “in an objective and nondevotional manner with no attempt made to indoctrinate students”, the mixing of church and state worried many Georgia residents.

Almost two years after the course's legal approval, very few schools that offer the religious course (only 37 of the state's 440 public high schools).

Some schools do not offer the classes for fear of lawsuits from the class's opponents, and other schools simply do not have enough student interest to justify offering the class. Many students are not interest in a nondevotional class on the Bible, prefering other electives, such as SAT preparation classes, where popularity has increased greatly in the past year.