In
Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (1925), the court ruled the Oregon Compulsory Education Act invalid.
Writing for the majority, Justice McReynolds declared that the Act "unreasonably interferes with the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control."
Justice McReynolds was the last of the real Conservatives to leave the Federal Bench, in the days of FDR. Since then, the Left has tried to prevent anyone nearly so Conservative, ever being appointed again. (We now call their antics "Borking," but they had been going about them for a long time before the Bork debacle.)
Hopefully there would be a 5 Justice majority to defend the rights of home schoolers--if it came to that--today, but that is far from certain.
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Thanks for the information BK.