Released Time – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:20:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://files.bluecerealeducation.com/2023/06/BowlIcon.png Released Time – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com 32 32 “Have To” History: Zorach v. Clauson (1952) https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/have-history-zorach-v-clauson-1952/ Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:48:04 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/have-history-zorach-v-clauson-1952/ The celebrations of freedom and democracy which lingered after World War II were rapidly fading in favor of fear, suspicion, and a sense of persecuted minority status among the straight white Protestants who still made up nearly 90% of the nation’s population (and virtually 100% of its leadership). Historically, it seems, nothing threatens entrenched demographic power like a handful of outliers thinking their lives matter as well.

]]> 522 “Have To” History: McCollum v. Board of Education (1948) https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/have-history-mccollum-v-board-education-1948/ Thu, 19 Mar 2020 22:12:43 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/have-history-mccollum-v-board-education-1948/ Three Big Things:

1. McCollum v. Board of Education was the first Supreme Court case to test the idea of “released time” during the school day for religious instruction by outside groups or religious leaders.

2. The Court’s four different written opinions demonstrate the complexity of applying absolutist rhetoric (“wall of separation”) to specific circumstances without trampling on the rights of local decision-makers.

3. The issues debated in McCollum reappeared in various iterations long after this particular decision and still come up in only slightly modified forms today.

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