Court Opinion

ID: 9426622
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:18:28.645909+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:00.444351
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Mr. Chief Justice Burger,
concurring in the result.
I join in the Court’s disposition of this case. In doing so, I emphasize that our decision to dismiss the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted intimates no view on the question of when, if ever, public school teachers — or any comparable public employees — may be required, as a condition of their employment, to enroll their children in any particular school or refrain from sending them to a school which they, as parents, in their sole discretion, consider desirable. Few familial decisions are as immune from governmental interference as parents’ choice of a school for their children, so long as the school chosen otherwise meets the educational standards imposed by the State. See Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U. S. 510 (1925); Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U. S. 390 (1923); Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U. S. 205 (1972).