CARE & PROTECTION OF CHARLES


399 Mass. 324 (1987)

504 N.E.2d 592

CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHARLES & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

March 2, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul O. Dillon for the parents.

Robert G. Woernle, Jr., for the minors.

Edward F. Lenox, Jr., for the School Committee of Canton.

Austin Broadhurst, Wendell Robert Carr, & Laura M. Teopaco, for Massachusetts Association of School Committees, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


HENNESSEY, C.J.

This case concerns the education of children at home by their parents. We are especially concerned here with the applicable constitutional law, as well as certain provisions of G.L.c. 119 (care and protection of children), G.L.c. 71 (public schools), and G.L.c. 76 (attendance at school). Due to religious convictions, the parents desired to educate their three children, ages eleven, eight, and six, at home during the 1985-1986 school year.

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