Is Public Education Necessarily a “Liberal Education”?
In a poignant article describing the fate of the recent schoolgirl ordered to go to public school rather than home school, Perry Glanzer describes how the court assumes what it argues: that the child cannot espouse her own beliefs. Glanzer argues: merely because a child can mount a vigorous defense of his or her religious beliefs does not mean that the child has not seriously considered other points of view. Rightly stated. Particularly because these “other” points of view are often the only viewpoints represented in public schools.
