Education Essay: Has Supreme Court Reconfigured American Education?

Assignment Model
Week X: Has Supreme Court Reconfigured American Education?
Assignment: Identifying Fallacious Arguments and Rhetorical Ploys
Educational Issue: Has Supreme Court Reconfigured American Education?
Educational Expert Position
Yes: Charles L. Glenn
No: Paul E. Peterson
Summary of Author’s Position:
Charles L. Glenn argues that the Supreme Court has reconfigured American Education through its decision in Zelman versus Simmon-Harris, and provided a prompt antidote to the secularism among students. He argues that selecting a school for the children is the fundamental and immediate rights of their parents (Glenn, 2002). Their decision is based on how they want their child to build an outlook of the world. Consequently, Glenn continues with the argument that the voucher system for public schools will motivate people to strife. On the other hand, he believes that the reversal of court decision can create multiple choices for public schooling, which can improve the cultural diversity in the U.S.
Rhetorical Fallacies and Ploys Used by the Author:
Quotations and Rhetorical Ploys
Part 1: Quotations
“The same powerful sectarian religious propagandists who have succeeded in securing passage of the present law to help religious schools carry on their sectarian religious purposes can and doubtless will continue their propaganda, looking toward complete domination and supremacy of their particular brand of religion (Noll, 2013, p. 111).”
“The first amendment’s prohibition against governmental establishment of religion was written on the assumption that state aid to religion and religious schools generates discords, disharmony, hatred and strife among our people, and that any government that supplies such aids is to that extent a tyranny(Noll, 2013, p. 111).”
Part 2: Rhetorical Ploy
Glenn’s argument is rich in loaded words with light or strong emotional appeal, for example, his use of ‘propaganda’ and ‘propagandists’ have collisional meaning strongly attacking the unfavourable association of voucher system to secularism. He could use ‘promoters’, or,’ supporters’, instead of the word, &ls...