[Virginia-American]

Geeze! I bet you cheered when you saw those photos of armed sheriffs chasing the little Amish kids through the corn fields.

Missed that. Why were they being chased?

The kids need to learn the content of science. Period. If you want to pay extra to have someone say "this is God's work" or "this is Brahma's will", or whatever, fine. Just learn the science, what it says, the observations and experiments that back it, etc.

[wintertime]

Geeze! I bet you cheered when you saw those photos of armed sheriffs chasing the little Amish kids through the corn fields.
Missed that. Why were they being chased? ( Virginia-American)

To Virginia-American,

I doubt that any governmnent school curriculum would cover this since it is hostile to the entire concept of compulsory government schools.

In the 1950s, Pennsylvania government school officials demanded that Amish children attend government school until the age of 16. The Amish objected to this since the entire school culture, environment, policy, and curriculum was hostile to and undermined their religious beliefs. Armed sheriffs literally chased little Amish children through their farm corn fields in an effort to round them up and cart them off to government prison ( oops,,,I mean "school")

The Amish fought this all the way to the Supreme Court and WON! They were allowed to form their own one-room school houses, with their own curriculum and teachers. The children are educated to the eighth grade.

Now,,,,before you declare that these Amish children are educationally abused,let me tell how well these children do.

Only about half of all Amish children remain in the religion. If they are never baptized in the religion they are not shunned and are accepted by their families. These children do very well. They have high rates of employment, welfare is almost non-existant in this group, and crime nearly completely absent. Those who do chose to go on to college do well having had an excellent primary education. What little they lack from high school science and math is quickly made up at the local community college.

I know about this personally since I lived in an area with a high Amish population and my son and his family, who I visit frequently, lives in a housing development surrounded by Amish farms.

If I have the time I will look up the Supreme Court case. I believe it was Yodder-something.