Court Opinion

ID: 9683188
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 13:24:06.06141+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:20:27.574800
License: Public Domain

John I. Purtle, Justice, concurring. The appellant was found guilty of not sending his child to a “public, private, or parochial school.” The child was in fact being taught at home with materials from a correspondence school. The argument was that the appellant had the right to give his child a “religious education.” No member of this court is of the opinion that a parent does not have the right to give his child a religious education in the home. Nothing in the opinion even remotely suggests that parents are not free to educate their children in a religious manner. I think the opinion simply says that keeping a child out of any type of organized school is a violation of the statute requiring parents to send their children to a “public, private, or parochial school.”