Sotomayor said: “Nonetheless, it is irrational for this Court to hold that the Free Exercise Clause bars Maine from giving money to par- ents to fund the only type of education the State may pro- vide consistent with the Establishment Clause: a reli- giously neutral one. Nothing in the Constitution requires today’s result.”
I understand what she is saying, but there are big glaring practicality problems with placing the onus on parents to undertake a regulatory function that they are not equipped to undertake. Then again there is the problems with accounting for public funds in the transparent fashion required by law.
Sotomayor would leave parents high and dry in areas with few schools. Better to have a Catholic school education that will allow students to pass mandated exams than to have to reinvent the wheel on academic requirements.
Apparently, Maine is completely awful with regard to a lack of school choice, and we do live in the era of “cancel culture.”