Source: Law & Liberty
by Marc Wheat
“How families choose to educate their children is still the locus of enormously controversial debates. But we should favor freedom in education just as much as we do in anything else, precisely because each child is uniquely known by just one family, who are in the best position to know what educational opportunities would best make that child thrive and have a richly fulfilling life. Those outside the family unit may have their own opinions that they would like to substitute for the judgment of the family, and they may use modern-day alternatives to hemlock to get their way: zoning laws, teacher certification, multiple layers of required administrative staff, mandates to teach to state-mandated tests. When educational bureaucrats want graduates who all conform to the conventions of non-conformity, non-conformists to those conventions are often thought of as somehow disruptive to the educational project.” (04/17/25)
https://lawliberty.org/religious-charter-schools-freedom-or-hemlock/