Most Amish children attend one-room Amish-run schools
Like their “English” peers, non-Amish children are required by law to attend school. However, Amish children are traditionally educated only until the eighth grade.
Amish feel an eighth-grade education is sufficient for an Amish lifestyle. Amish are also wary of some of the subject matter typically taught in high schools.
Amish earned the right to remove their children from school after the eighth grade following the 1972 Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder.
In some communities, such as Holmes County, Ohio, and northern Indiana (Shipshewana, Middlebury, Topeka, Nappanee, and related areas), a significant percentage of Amish children attend public schools.
A small minority of Amish children are home-schooled, though it’s not common.
Read more on why Amish don’t go to high school.
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In the earlier 20th century, Lancaster County Amish attended public schools. My grandmother was one such teacher, with 50 students from 1st-8th grade. Her students, mostly Amish, held a 50th anniversary party for her, and we met many of these students. As matters of mandatory pledge of allegiance, and prayer in school became contentious, separate Amish schools were formed.
Marlene thanks for sharing on this and other posts, have been enjoying your interesting comments. I bet your Grandma had quite a few to show up for that 50th.
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