# Burrow v. State

> Supreme Court of Arkansas · May 21, 1984 · 282 Ark. 479

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9683188

## Case

- **Full name:** Wayne BURROW v. STATE of Arkansas
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Arkansas
- **Decided:** May 21, 1984
- **Citations:** 282 Ark. 479; 669 S.W.2d 441; 1984 Ark. LEXIS 1704
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Purtle
- **Judges:** Hays, Purtle, Hollingsworth, Adkisson, Hickman
- **Cited by:** 9 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

John I. Purtle, Justice, concurring. The appellant was found guilty of not sending his child to a “public, private, or parochial school.” The child was in fact being taught at home with materials from a correspondence school. The argument was that the appellant had the right to give his child a “religious education.” No member of this court is of the opinion that a parent does not have the right to give his child a religious education in the home. Nothing in the opinion even remotely suggests that parents are not free to educate their children in a religious manner. I think the opinion simply says that keeping a child out of any type of organized school is a violation of the statute requiring parents to send their children to a “public, private, or parochial school.”

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