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Download full textSedler, Robert A. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
Blackstone's Commentaries stated that the common law imposed a duty on parents to provide for the maintenance, protection, and education of their children, and of these, the duty to provide an education was "of far the greatest importance." Early on American courts cited Blackstone for the proposition of the common law duty of parents…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Laws, Parent Rights, Parent Responsibility
U. S. Supreme Court – Momentum, 2000
Presents the U. S. Supreme Court decision in the 1925 case of Pierce, Governor of Oregon, et al. v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. v. Hill Military Academy. Decrees that the state law requiring parents to enroll students between the ages of 8 and 16 in a public school is unconstitutional. (VWC)
Descriptors: Attendance, Compulsory Education, Court Litigation, Educational Responsibility
