Posted on 04/12/2020 12:29:51 PM PDT by Maudeen
Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's order closing public school buildings also bans homeschooling, which is unconstitutional, contends a legal non-profit in the state.
"The Great Lakes Justice Center calls upon Gov. Whitmer to correct this unconstitutional action and assure parents in Michigan that they may continue to safely home school their own children while the EO is in effect," the organization said in a statement Thursday.
The April 2 order states "in-person instruction for pupils in kindergarten through grade 12 is suspended for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year."
It applies to all "non-public ... schools in the state."
"The governor clearly has the authority to close school buildings," the legal team acknowledged. However, "Michigan law defines home schools as nonpublic schools."
That means the executive order bars parents from directly teaching their children at home, the organization argued.
"While this may be an unintended consequence of faulty drafting, the EO's plain language bans all 'in-person instruction' of all children."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
“How in the world did this bucking, jumping, snorting wild ass ever win an election?”
A whole bunch of election fraud and dumbasses that couldn’t get off the sofa to go vote.
RINO Rick and Rhonda Romney had conservatives so pissed off they didn’t vote.
Perhaps on the “other side” of this mess, the Democrats will have so trashed themselves that NO Democrat will be elected to office in the 2020 and 2021 Elections?
[Are you listening, paying attention Virginia???!!]
Don’t bet on it.
No. Home schools are “non public schools” under MI law. This type of issue is a common approach to infringing on home schools.
This was likely aimed at private and parochial schools, but the legal language says exactly what WND is reporting.
No boating
In Michigan?
Wow,
That’s immoral!
Here let me help you past the cliches.
1. We had 8 years of a GOP governor. It was the usual fatigue of one party having the office leading to a switch.
1.5 The then Lt. Gov (the nominee) didnt really move people.
2. She ran on the platform of “fixing the damn roads”. Michigan’s roads are very poor, and it was a platform that resonated.
3. Flint
4. It was a mid-term election year. That played against the GOP.
5. The GOP dominated the House, Senate, and state high court, so there was not that sense she could do much damage. That left a lot of voters without any real sense or urgency.
“No. Home schools are non public schools under MI law. This type of issue is a common approach to infringing on home schools.”
Home-schools can exempt from that requirement.
LOL! Leave it to the fascist Democrats to “ban” home schooling when kids can’t go to school.
Nurse Rat-ched
Her again?? Michigan, please recall!
MI Governor Gestapo Gretchen Half-Whitmer (D) has:
Banned open burning statewide (backyard fire in fire bowl or pit).
Banned motor-boating (the kind with a boat and a motor, she likes the other kind I’m sure).
Set a 9 pm to 6am driving curfew (unless you have papers).
Banned non-essential purchases in stores, like garden topsoil and seeds and plantings (aisles blocked off).
Banned parking lot church services.
Now banned home schooling.
Deemed Michigan lottery and lotto sales essential.
I understand your position, and constitutionally I agree. However, it is still common practice in lefty states to write legal language in such a way that allows lower level apparatchiks apply it unconstitutionally until they are slapped down by the courts.
I’ve seen this approach used extensively in New York.
If the parents use the religious school exemption, nothing the HalfWitt says about school applies to them.
This is indeed a hill worth dying on. I’m in with my rifle is Michigan wants to stand up.
Parents, do it anyway.
What’s the gov gonna do, arrest everyone????
Its practically a typo. Not what they meant.
This stupid bitch is giving our state a very bad name. The recall effort cannot begin soon enough.
Democrat doing what democrats do. Wake up America!
This is real.
I was biking around the metro park today and saw two metro park police pull into the boat launch area and make a guy putting in to go fishing with an aluminum boat small motor pull it back out and leave.
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