Plyler V. Doe Case Study

Plyler v. Doe was one of many legal cases we talked about over the course of this semester in our SEI class. This case was the most interesting to me and so I thought I would share my knoedlge on this court case. This court case was brought to the suprieme court where the defendant was Plyler and the plaintiff was Doe. The Doe family was of Mexican orgin and were from Texas. The definedants argued that undoumented children were not “persons” and this was very alarming to me! The state was denying all funding to children in grades k-12 who were immigrants while trying to charge these people a large tutition fee for each undocumentedd student. They were denying students of education becuase of their status. They wanted this to compisate for
money lost from the state and the ruling was that this was a violation of the 14th amendment. This case influened education and English language learners in many different ways. The most influcenal point this case left behind was that this case found it to be unconfistuioanl to not provide free education to children in grades k-12. This case changed the law and said no matter if you are legal or illegal, you will get the education you deserve. I found it to be extrememly intersting that this happened just before my lifetime. I find it crazy that we still have these topics being brought up. I do not see why children should be denied enducation just beucase of their status or background. Don’t we want the best for everyone? And to have people furute their education to do better things one day? This was very interesting to me and it was appaluing that they said undocumented children were not “persons.” I found that to be extremely insulting to those indivudals and uncalled for!