Posted on 12/10/2021 6:51:59 PM PST by marshmallow
Attorneys representing a Maine family at the Supreme Court are feeling confident following Wednesday’s oral arguments in the case Carson v. Makin.
The case asks whether a state – such as Maine – breaches the free exercise clause or equal protection clause of the First Amendment by barring students in a student-aid program from using their aid to attend schools offering a “sectarian” education.
The Carson family, consisting of parents Amy and David and their daughter Olivia, reside in Glenburn, Maine. Because Glenburn has no public school system, families with school-age children are eligible for a school-choice program that pays tuition at either public or non-sectarian schools.
About 5,000 Maine students are eligible for this program, which specifically excludes private schools that are “associated with a particular faith or belief system and which, in addition to teaching academic subjects, promotes the faith or belief system with which it is associated and/or presents the material taught through the lens of this faith,” which Maine considers “sectarian”.
The Carson parents are alumni of Bangor Christian Schools, a K-12 school in the nearby city of Bangor. But because Bangor Christian Schools mandates Bible class, it is ineligible for the town tuition program, meaning the Carsons have to pay for Olivia’s tuition.
The Carsons, along with two other Maine families seeking to send their children to “sectarian” schools, filed suit in 2018. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case on July 2, 2021.
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I went to an All Girl Elite High School in Upstate NY. There was not one Religious Class. A couple times, the Chaplain would give a talk...but hardly a class. We had a Jesuit come in once as a guest speaker. No big deal.
School was for learning the 3 Rs. Church was for learning Religion.
Time to kick the Blaine amendments to the curb and break the leftist educational cabal’s stranglehold on K12 education.
“nor the free exercise of”
We went to different Catholic schools. I’m also 77. I went to Aquinas Dominican High School in Chicago, and religion was dominant. As well as getting a first rate education, religion was a part of every class taught. Let me take that back, I don’t remember math class finding a way to put religion into the curriculum, but every other class certainly did. And retreats, and lectures from priests, and encouragement to join a convent, etc. Worst class ever? Apologetics. The nuns couldn’t pull together the concepts of logic and religion. They did such a disastrous job that they should never have tried.
But I’ve always been grateful to the school for the quality of their education, and contributed to the nun’s retirement fund until our last teacher died.
Simply have to prove that secular humanism, the religion of those who claim no religion, is in fact the epitome of the definition.
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