ABSTRACT
If parents are permitted to express their personal viewpoint, bias or even eccentricity in the educational arrangements they make for their children, either in terms of choice of school or perhaps even by opting out of formal education altogether, then the question must be raised of whether they are in fact exercising their own preference at the expense of equally important rights and freedoms belonging to their children. Once this point of view is considered, it becomes clear that the state could be seen as the champion and protector of children's rights against their parents.
