Word: amish
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...Amish country of Pennsylvania, a family sits down, as it has for four generations, to a holiday dinner. All of them have arrived by the same sort of vehicle: a horse-drawn carriage...
...This spring the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the right of the Old Order Amish of the U.S. to keep their children out of high school (TIME, May 29). Now the Amish have won a battle with the U.S. Department of Labor-a skirmish over hats. Effective in January, a federal regulation required construction workers of all kinds to wear hard hats. The Amish refused to give up their traditional broad-brimmed felt hat, which they wear as part of their religion, and this spring some 400 Amish workers in Indiana were furloughed from their construction jobs. On their behalf, Attorney...
...Amish believe that the schools are part and parcel of an inhuman competitive technological society, of which they will have no part...
...granting Amish children exemption from state-imposed schooling, the Supreme Court recognized the religious educational needs of an organized group...
...Amish with similar educational requirements backed by his own thought-out reasons must still follow the public school route...