Emma Brown and Peter Jamison write: “In the early 1980s, [homeschooling pioneer Michael] Farris argued that a high school English class was promoting a religion of ‘secular humanism’ by teaching The Learning Tree, a novel by Black filmmaker Gordon Parks. But his most famous confrontation with public school officials came during a 1986 trial in Tennessee. His clients were born-again Christians who argued their children should not be required to read Rumpelstiltskin, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and other material that they said undermined their religious beliefs. In recent years, he has reached the pinnacle of the conservative legal establishment alleging that public schools are violating parental and religious rights.”