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1.Jonas Yoder and Wallace Miller, members of the Amish religion, withdrew their daughters, Frieda Yoder and Barbara Miller, from school after they had completed the eighth grade. This refusal violated a Wisconsin compulsory school attendance law that required Frieda and Barbara to be in school until their sixteenth birthdays. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Amish parents had a constitutionally protected right to control the religious education of their children under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The Court’s majority concluded that to require the children to attend public high school would undermine fundamental Amish values and religious freedoms. Frieda and Barbara were not parties to the lawsuit, and there is no record as to their positions on the issue in this case. Given the Supreme Court’s holding in Wisconsin v. Yoder, what posture should the law take in a situation where Amish children desire to attend high school over the objections of their parents? Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972)

This case is a great example of where morals and something being legal crosses. Referring back to our prior discussion about determining the definitions of legal and moral. In this case the Amish culture has its religious aspect into how they should be raising their kids even though legally children should attend school until the age of sixteen. if an Amish child want to attend school I think the court should asked the child and set up strict rules for the parents to follow by until the child is at a ready age or graduates high school. Even though this could be an option in law children under the age of 18 can’t make decisions because they are considered infants until then....