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