Daniel Crowley v. Donald McKinney and Berwyn South School District 100

This case is about a father’s constitutional right to participate meaningfully in the upbringing of his children. The question, as I see it, is whether the state (in this case through the agency of a local school district and its principal) may effectively terminate a noncustodial father’s parental rights, through measures that deprive him altogether from the most important activity in which children under the age of eighteen engage: their education. The majority sees, no federal constitutional dimension in the deprivations that the school district has imposed upon Daniel Crowley,…