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...three farmers in New Glarus, Wis., refused to enroll their 14- and 15-year-old children in the local public high school. They were fined $5 each* for violating Wisconsin's compulsory-school-attendance law. A small case, but a crucial one. The three farmers-Jonas Yoder, Wallace Miller and Adin Yutzy-were Amish. They had kept their children out of high school as a matter of religious conscience, because the Amish eschew too much worldly knowledge. Total pacifists, they could not even personally fight the convictions; by the strict tenets of their faith, a court suit would violate...
Going English. To achieve this lonely differentness, the Amish have had to keep family and community close-knit-an important factor in last week's decision. Unlike the Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana Amish communities, all large and long established, the Amish settlers in the rolling countryside around New Glarus (pop. 1,400) are a group of about 150 newcomers who began to drift into the area...
...they feared that high school would tempt their children to "go English," as the Amish refer to slipping into worldly ways. The "English" world is non-Amish society; among themselves most Amish speak the German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch, and in religious services they use High German. New Glarus Farmer Wallace Miller, father of twelve and one of the respondents in the Supreme Court case, explained other Amish objections to high school: "We like our children to learn the three Rs, and the public schools were getting away from that. And then we don't approve of teaching...
...train them in an "education for life," emphasizing the "classical wisdom" of producing moral men. The state had contended that Amish children who left school before the statutory age of 16 could become burdens to the community. Testimony from previous appeals showed otherwise. No Amish teen-ager in New Glarus had ever been arrested for any crime; no Amish at all had an illegitimate birth or accepted any public assistance...
...Wisconsin, these Old World cultures never submerged in the great American melting pot as they have elsewhere. The state's culture is a pot of mulligan stew, with each ingredient clearly distinguishable: the Norwegians near Mount Horeb, the Swiss in New Glarus, the Icelanders on Washington Island. German can be heard on the streets of most cities and towns...