The court is not “dictating to the custodial parent how the child should be educated.” As I understand it, both parents in this case share joint legal custody (though the mother maintains primary physical custody). The two custodial parents disagree on how to educate the child and, as part of their divorce, agreed to submit such disagreements to the court.
This isn’t a church-state issue, and it isn’t an issue of the court stepping in unnecessarily to tell a religious parent how to raise her child. It is a dispute between two divorced parents, decided by the court on terms agreed to by both parents.
she pretended to be Jewish (never converted just lied) and insisted my two girls with her go to Temple and reject Christendom which had been their faith for 7-8 years just to please him and sate his parents (that funky tribe thingie)
anyhow , my dad and I decided nope, you have pegged the wrong goyim on this one so we fought back and in a courtroom in Miami where everyone was Jewish but me including even the bailiff and court reporter, the Judge (Gertner?) ruled in my favor and said they could go to what ever service with whomever parent...I had never objected to them going to Temple ...I have been to some Seders ...including some high Holy day ones with real Jews...not secular wannebes.
The clincher was when he asked my ex if she knew what Purim was and she looked like a deer in the headlights but I knew...lol....plus she was very non Jewish looking and Jews are anything but stupid...they know their own when they see them same as I do a good Southron the second they open their gator
but my point is that I can't see the reasoning behind stripping the precedence of the kid going to Christian school and if the mom has primary residence custody then often that would give her more juice in that matter especially if she is paying for it.
epilogue for fellow travelers: my ex and he split, both girls have been with me now for years and one is born again and going to law school and the other...the wilder bohemian one does have good work ethic and is going to mortician school as of last week in Manhattan...don't ask me why?...the money and flexibility...she wanted to be a doctor..lol...2/3rds of funeral home folks are now chicks...i looked it up