Broken home, broken lives. And now the court is dictating to the custodial parent how the child should be educated.
I'd really like to know more about the parents and the particular faith before I commented on this.
But I can tell you for sure without knowing more than I do, that I don't like the court deciding the educational avenue the parents should have a right to choose for their children.
It just doesn't sound like the US of A that I grew up in.
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.