As cataloged in the
Public Schooling Battle Map, government schools have forced parents into conflict
over issues like freedom of expression, religion,
morality, creationism, evolution, multiculturalism, sexuality, and numerous other issues in hundreds of reported cases in recent years.
Examining the vigorous
public debates
over the idea of bankruptcy, Telfer argues that the law was shaped by conflict
over the
morality of release from debts and by the divergence of interests between local and distant creditors.