Posted on 07/07/2013 10:57:44 AM PDT by John Semmens
The Compulsory Education Act or Oregon School Law was a 1922 law in the U.S. state of Oregon that required school age children to attend only public schools. The United States Supreme Court later struck down the law as unconstitutional.
In 1922, the Masonic Grand Lodge of Oregon sponsored a bill to require all school-age children to attend public schools. With support also of the state Ku Klux Klan and 1922 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Walter M. Pierce, the Compulsory Education Law was passed. Its primary purpose was to shut down Catholic schools in Oregon, but it also affected other private and military schools. It was challenged in court and struck down by the United States Supreme Court Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925) before it went into effect.
The law, which was officially called the Compulsory Education Act and unofficially became known as the Oregon School Law, did not just require that children between the ages of eight and sixteen had to attend school; it required that they attend only public schools. By prohibiting children from attending private or parochial schools, the state thus forced such schools to close.
Outraged Catholics organized locally and nationally for the right to send their children to Catholic schools. In a 1925 decision, the United States Supreme Court declared the Oregon School Law unconstitutional in a ruling that that has been called “the Magna Carta of the parochial school system.” In the ruling, the Court asserted that “the child is not the mere creature of the state” and settled once and for all the question of whether or not private schools had a right to exist in America.
(Wikipedia)
OH NO!!! It’s satire? I have been expecting this to really come to pass. The hook was set. duh........
FREAK OUT !!! You had me going for a second, until I hit the link.
Kollektiv. Now they're admitting it openly. Can we start picking 'em off NOW?
When don’t ask / don’t tell was put into place, I was of the opinion that we needed a constitutional amendment that defined marriage. Seems I was years ahead of my time.
In that same vein, I assert now, that we need a constitutional amendment preventing Congress or the States from restricting home schooling.
they have no right at all to ban home schooling....none
Heh, good one!
The right to home school your children would seem to be protected by the 9th Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
Individual states have been offered federal candy to fall in line with thier programs or else
Well, y’all might claim that “right”,
but iffin’ ya do it,
ya’ll better be prepared for some “backlash”...
Where’s my copy of “Unintended Consquences”, anyway?
Q: “What about socialization?”
A: “We’re not raising socialists.”
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