Using claims of discrimination as a wedge in the door for government bureaucrats would end religious education and the religious rights of parents.
While the Supreme Court was hearing oral argument May 13 about whether Catholic schools should have the right to decide whom they employ as teachers, my daughter was on a Zoom call with her Catholic schoolteacher.
Like the schools that appeared before the court, Our Lady of Guadalupe School and St. James School, her Catholic elementary school has one class per grade, and as a result, one teacher per grade. My daughter’s second grade teacher doesn’t just teach her about sentence structure and multiplication tables, she did the formal instruction to prepare her to give her first confession and to receive her first communion.
Further, every subject taught at her school is infused with religion. This is why parents such as myself choose religious education. Just as we believe our faith should permeate all aspects of our lives, we believe that a good education should be infused with spirituality, especially when children are in the most impressionable stages of their lives. For me and my husband, that meant making the difficult choice to take our daughter out of an excellent public school where she was thriving and put her in a school that would form her faith as well.
Yet the choices made by parents like us all around this country, parents who sacrificed accordingly, are threatened by a lawsuit at the Supreme Court.
