Perhaps if there was a single word about schooling being a duty of the state in the Constitution these judges would have a leg to stand on in denying liberty to these families. There is NO such Constitutional mandate for the public schooling of American children. Many of our most productive citizens in the past, such as Thomas Edison, were home schooled.
I saw this in HSLDA’s e-mail update earlier this week. The outcome is about what I expected when HSLDA became involved with a non-member. It’s quite common for school officials at all levels to put their own spin on the wording of the law, as this district unilaterally decided that “annual” notification meant “before the beginning of the public school year.”
(Update on the Utah homeschooler case, guys.)
Dictaorship by judges under the marxist guise of the state loving the children by taking them from good homes and putting them in foster homes where so many of them are abused by theior loving state nannies.
To me this could have been resolved if the mother had driven the papers to the school after it was noticed that the school never got the fax. Even though I went to Catholic School, the public school was only a few miles from my house. My mother could easily taken papers over to the school had she homeschooled me. There is something strange about this story and why it got to this level is beyond me.
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I would call this persecution.
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If they moved out of state, the Utah courts no longer have jurisdiction on the family.
Take him out, before he does something much more egregious, Utah! You've had your warning; do not turn deaf ears to it.