First Amendment the First Amendment Essay

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The issue of free speech and the ability of a group to exempt itself from the requirements of public education is at the heart of the issue of the question: can a group of religious fundamentalists petition the state to allow their children an exemption from school biology classes that, they believe, are contrary to their religious views (one would presuppose evolutionary theory?) First, an argument to exempt a child from a class would imply that if there was any part of the core curriculum that a parent might feel conflicted with a religious philosophy, the child would be able to opt out. So, if a religious group believed, as it states in the Old Testament, that the earth is the center of the universe, created in six days by a master being, then ostensibly the child could be exempt from geology, biology, and even mathematics.

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This is certainly contrary to the educational system, and also implies that a study is unable to think for themselves, treat theories as theories, and move beyond rhetoric into high levels of analysis and synthesis of information. Allowing fundamentalist groups to petition for exemption also opens the precedent for all sorts of cultural, behavioral and religious exceptions to any number of curriculum material. There is a long, and rather detailed history of the legal aspect of teaching evolution in the public school (see Appendix a), but for our purposes we will concentrate on three seminal cases that help define this specific issue.

One of the more significant Court victories won by a religious group, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, found that the Free Speech Clause in the First Amendment protected students from being forced.....

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