This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, January 31st, 2020.

I'm Caleb Brown.

As the Supreme Court weighs another case over school choice, what does tolerance really

mean in the context of school choice for many who

oppose it the most important fact is simply that parents have the ability to educate

their children in facts that aren't facts and ideas that are generally disfavored.

Cato's Neil McCluskey comments on tolerance and school choice.

For, you could probably say for the entire history of the United States of America, we have been

trying to figure out what the right relationship should be between church and state.

And a big part of this has been education.

And sort of the history of it is,

for most of the history in which we've had public schools,

and you would say that public schooling largely

started in around 1840 with horse man in the Common

School Movement, but for much of that history the schools were de facto Protestant institutions,

but there was an expectation or a belief that a proper American

was somebody who was at least some baseline level of Protestant and some other stuff. And with that as sort of a widely but certainly not universally

accepted baseline the public schools for most of their existence were sort of Protestant institutions and where we saw the biggest

problem with that was Roman Catholics who came in in great numbers and they they said, look, there are elements of Protestantism,

as anybody who knows their religious history knows,

that are not compatible with Catholicism.

And we would like money for our own schools.

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