New Jersey Judge Orders Penal Charges Against Mom for Home-Schooling

Life Site News ^ | 03.07.07 | Meg Jalsevac

[latina4dubya]

but what about the law? shouldn't the judge have followed that?

[SunkenCiv]

the mother's supposed infraction is home-schooling her children without supervision from the local school board - a right explicitly upheld in New Jersey law.

The judge refers to the need to protect children from "educational abuse". It's apparent what the judge's position is regarding judicial abuse. Thanks Coleus.

[Señor Zorro]

Right on...If dueling was still legal we'd have far fewer moonbats.

Hardly. The only thing that compelled anyone to fight a duel was a sense of honor. Need I mention that these moonbats have no honor?

[TalonDJ]

That's why I recommend an independent body

There already is an independent body. It is called the work force. If you don't pass it's standards you go back to study more. Even if a homeschooler only learned basic life skills like cooking and cleaning they will make it in the entry level work force. Just because a set of parents does not teach what you would have taught does not mean the child is permanently destroyed.

[JenB]

I do think some organization not controlled by public education should have some power to act where it appears homeschooled children are not actually being educated.

And do... what exactly? Call the cops? If they have that power, they are basically an arm of the government. Write a sternly-worded note? That works for the UN...

Government schoolteachers will never submit to some outside organization, so homeschoolers shouldn't either. Not to mention, there is no standard rule of thumb that can apply to every child. Some are reading proficiently at four. Others seem behind until they're eight, because their brains are wired differently and take longer to mature. Are you going to test just reading, writing, and arithmatic? Or will you be judging history, penmanship, and grammar? Oops, you've just legislated a curriculumn that homeschoolers must follow, because if they study Ancient Greece in third grade but you're testing the Civil War, well, then their kids will be deficient...

[Wuli]

We should have the option of taking a federal "voucher" equal to all state and local taxes to "public education" with the federal treasury then reducing the federal grants to "public education" by an equal amount. It would apply to federal grants to the state, county and locality in the same proportion as your taxes going to education at the state, county and local level. It would, in essence, let us take 100% of our "local" taxes paid for education to the local public or private school of our choice.

In time, the local politicians might get tired of the game enforced on them whereby they became a tax-collector for programs they have no control over; and then quit the scam, give up their education "taxes" on us and leave their greedy and politically biased hands off of our children's education.

[XR7]

That's why I recommend an independent body to define what is adequate education for an American child.

A child already has that.
They're called "parents."
This is the United States of America.
A free republic.

[JenB]

Exactly. Just because many parents are content to delegate some of their rights and duties to the government, does not mean that the government can take those from those of us who choose otherwise.

[Coleus]

Judge warns of child-abusing homeschoolers

[carolinalivin]

7 kids in a house can't avoid developing social skills

[Coleus]

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