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Children are to obey their parents. In this case the daughter is trying to obey what her mother is teaching, but is in conflict with her father. Is the father, or the mother the one "provoking" the conflict?

My point is that from a strictly biblical viewpoint, and I assume the mother is a strict fundamentalist when it comes to the bible, the husband is the head of the household and the wife is obligated to be submissive.

Ephesians 5:

    22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as 
unto the Lord.
    23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as 
Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of 
the body.
    24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so 
[let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.

While it might be argued that since they are divorced that this scripture no longer applies, I do believe that in the case of the child's best interests, the parents are still spiritually bonded and will ever so remain because they conceived a child together in marriage. Just because they are divorced on paper does not mean that for the purposes of raising this child they are not, in fact, husband and wife.

Therefore if the mother was being strictly biblical in her approach to where her daughter is to be schooled, she would submit to the will of the child's father. The fact that she refuses to do so and was willing to take this issue to court and to complain about the ruling after submitting it to the court (after they had agreed to have these matters resolved by the guardian ad-litem) tells me that while her profession of faith is strong, her fundamental faith is weak.