****Pentecostal Christian couple David Allen Turpin, 57, and his 49-year-old wife, Louise Anna Turpin, were arrested on Jan. 14, after police had to rescue their 13 severely malnourished children from their home in Perris, California. The home was registered as a homeschool.****
This so-called ‘Christian’ couple were never subjected to any type of ‘home school’ inspections or regulations by the State of California and they should have been.
Any reputable ‘home schooling’ parent, would be proud to show evidence of competence, dedication, good instruction and well adjusted, happy children. An annual check up should be required - for the sake of ensuring educated offspring in the challenging world they will face as adults.
” Any reputable ‘home schooling’ parent, would be proud to show evidence of competence, dedication, good instruction and well adjusted, happy children. An annual check up should be required - for the sake of ensuring educated offspring in the challenging world they will face as adults.”
What is wrong with you? What you are describing is a Nazi system which demonizes a large population of caring parents to supposedly safeguard the random aberrations which can never ever be safeguarded. Do you advocate the same thing for all public schools for a single instances of their failures? I doubt it.
Public School has an abysmal failure rate. Drop outs, inability to read /write or do Math at anything close to grade level. The Public School system is failing its students all across the country and doesnt even come close to “ ensuring educated offspring in the challenging world they will face as adults.” Where is your venom for that tragedy?
“An annual check up should be required - for the sake of ensuring educated offspring in the challenging world they will face as adults.”
Then require the kids brought to a physician every 6 months or at least some party that IS NOT the state. Once the state gets involved, particularly political people who HATE HOME SCHOOLERS (i.e., just about everyone in California government today), home schooling will simply be stamped out - they’ll do just what they did to their auto industry - make it impossible to survive.
No. They shouldn't.
We homeschool our kids, and I would refuse the state entry into my home without a warrant. It is sad and unfortunate this happened, but I liken it to gun controllers grabbing after our guns when someone misuses them. No more power to the state.
Thanks for sharing. I’m a former homeschooling dad of over 25 years and therefore have an informed opinion. I’d like for you to give it some thought. The
This case is highly unusual in one key way. Generally, when
you have loser parents who aren’t raising kids properly, home education isn’t an option they choose. Instead, they dump the kids at the government babysitting facility for seven hours a day.
Every, and I mean every of the hundreds of homeschooling families I know have their kids involved in some activities. That means that others see them and will know if there’s a problem.
To create state or federal oversight regulation because of a single aberrant situation is the height of insanity and overreach. Reeks of police state tactics.
The state has oversight in public schools and fails at nearly every conceivable level. Do you truly want their tentacles in your family? I sure don’t in mine.