The article discusses the tension between Oklahoma’s proposal for a Catholic-run public school and the principles established by the Founding Fathers regarding religion's role in education. Historically, the Founding Fathers believed that public schools should not be governed by any religious denomination to avoid division among citizens. This principle, which has endured for centuries, became codified with Supreme Court rulings against school-sponsored prayers in the 1960s. The current situation puts the Supreme Court's conservative majority in a tough position, as they must reconcile past rulings with the implications of endorsing religious control in public education.
The Founding Fathers didn't see eye to eye on all the details, but people in the founding era did agree that it would be the death of public schooling if schools came under the authority of any specific religious denomination.
Oklahoma's plan for a public school run by the Catholic Church would upend that principle... It puts the six members of the Supreme Court's conservative majority in a bind.
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