Mahmoud v. Taylor - the beginning of the end
Mahmoud v. Taylor Is the beginning of the end of public education.
Religious fundamentalists who aren’t wealthy enough to send their kids to religious schools/home school can now shape the content of their local public school.
This is no longer true: Public education is a public benefit, and the government cannot “condition” its “availability” on parents’ willingness to accept a burden on their religious exercise.”
Also this is now too much for some people to handle: “Exposure to ideas with which one disagrees is not coercion; it is the foundation of a pluralistic society and core to the mission of our public schools.”
we’ll see untold amounts of quiet censorship on the part of schools and educators related to the materials available and used in libraries and curriculum–this is a case about religious liberty and public education.
The 6-3 ruling will certainly be used by book banners “concerned parents” to begin opting-out of anything they wish to in public school curriculum under the guise of religious freedom.