Swanson Ex Rel. Swanson v. Guthrie Independent School District No. I-L

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• holding that parents do not have the right “to dictate that their children will attend public school for only part of the school day”
• recognizing that case law on subject establishes that “parents simply do not have a constitutional right to control each and every aspect of their children’s education and oust the state’s authority over that subject”
• explaining that the right is “limited in scope” and that “parents simply do not have a constitutional right to control each and every aspect of their children’s education and oust the state’s authority over that subject”
• explaining that the right is “limited in scope” and that “parents simply do not have a constitutional right to control each and every aspect of their children’s education and oust the state’s authority over that subject”
• \Nothing in the Free Exercise Clause requires that such special treatment be provided.\
• rejecting claim in case where parents desired to home-school children part of school day because school attendance policy itself did not allow for individualized exemptions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).