mentsch 1 – Jail is an extreme option. Most likely if the State wants to win this they would pursue monetary penalties as well as possibly pulling welfare from parents of truant children. Really don’t think many parents would hold out against such threats (also makes the antisemitism charges moot).
ujm – Few issues with your statement. (1) data exists for places like New Square showing heavy reliance on public welfare. So regardless whether you compare to black people in public school or not it does not change that there is heavy reliance on welfare. (2) comparing a “successful” community to an economically disadvantaged one with unstable households, maybe sounds good in your mind but doubt will convince others. Or is your argument that our communities are failures as well but just not as big as a failure as say the black one in public schools? Neither argument is very convincing to your cause. (3) The Amish rejected all forms of public welfare. It is a very different standard as to what you suggest. It would be very easy in court to prove reliance on welfare. Just get a list of families and compare that to welfare rolls. (4) as mentioned before, I would not assume how these justices view this as the idea of not providing a basic secular education and reliance on welfare does not align with their lives. Brett Kavanaugh went to Georgetown Prep and then Yale, Gorsuch went to Georgetown Prep followed by Columbia, Barrett also went to top-notch schools with highly ranked secular education. As religious as they are their way of religious life and education is nothing like what goes on in the Yeshiva’s with no secular education.