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Constitutional Law Keyed to Choper
Meyer v. Nebraska
Citation:
262 U.S. 390 (1923)Facts
In 1919, Nebraska enacted a law prohibiting the teaching of any subject in a language other than English in any school and forbidding the teaching of foreign languages to students who had not passed the eighth grade. On May 25, 1920, Robert Meyer, an instructor at Zion Parochial School, taught reading in German to Raymond Parpart, a ten-year-old child who had not yet passed the eighth grade. Meyer used a collection of biblical stories as his teaching material. He was subsequently charged and convicted under the Nebraska statute. The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld his conviction, reasoning that the law was designed to prevent children of immigrants from being raised with foreign languages as their mother tongue, which the court deemed “inimical to our own safety.”
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