“Your choice of homeschooling shows your claim of unconstitutionality to be the fallacy it is.”
In fact it is quite the opposite. I have the right as a parent to direct the upbringing and education of my children. The state has no right to compel me to put my children into public school (even though they will if I don’t provide instruction).
If you have voluntarily entered into an agreement to send your child to school for a certain amount of days, then that is your choice.
How does my choice to homeschool prove my assertion a fallacy? Just because something is law doesn’t make it constitutional(think abortion).
The Constitution protects us from the intrusion of government in our daily lives and clearly lays out the role of government. If you would care to show me where the Constitution ALLOWS government to FORCE parents to place their children in a institution I would be happy to reopen the debate. Obviously since, compulsory attendance is the “law of the land”, this would be considered my opinion. Just as I consider it a judges opinion that homosexual marriage and abortion are rights.
http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000000/00000075.asp
Sorry I meant to include this link. BTW, I am not saying that education is unconstitutional. I am saying that the state FORCING you to enroll your child in unconstitutional. Compulsory attendance is just that and now they are backing it up with the threat of jail. I am not sure why anyone would have an argument with that.
I was really just speaking tongue in cheek when I said I would rather them be on the streets. I would rather them be wherever their parents said they could be. If that is school then they should be in school. If that is working on the family farm then they should be on the family farm. I believe in parental rights and not compulsory attendance.
You are contradicting yourself.
I voluntarily entered a contract with the local school district for my daughter to attend their school, I was not forced to do so. That you have chosen to homeschool your children and my parents chose to send me to Catholic school proves there is no force involved.
There are consequences to not abiding by a contract you freely entered into and you agree to them when you agree to the contract. I voluntarily enrolled my daughter in the local school and voluntarily agreed to the terms of that enrollment.
If you are arguing the federal government does not belong involved in K-12 education, then I am with you 1,000%. I was a senior in HS before the federal DOE came into existence. One of the major failures of the Reagan Administration was not fulfilling his campaign promise to get rid of it.