[safisoft]

Furthermore, why should these kids be excemt from testing? Why must they be the exception to the rule?

Who gets to set the rules? The state? What if some day they make it a "rule" that parents who teach their children that liberals are evil must give up their children - would that be an acceptable "rule"? Which "rules" would be over the top for you? Or all of them legitimate? Maybe a tax on tea? How about special government stamps for all official business? Those don't sound too bad now do they? Yo, King George, we changed our mind...

The government is poking into areas are not their business, while real crimes are constantly committed. It is kind of like setting speed traps on Interstates - while the side streets are in the hands of rapists, murderers, etc.

[Mr. Lucky]

You'll be glad to know the United States Supreme Court agreed with you in a similar case 32 years ago. the Peoples Republic of Wisconsin threatened Amish parents with all sorts of vile punishments because they deprived their children of the benefits of a government sanctioned education. In Wisconsin v. Yoder, the Supreme Court ruled that the 1st Amendment trumps the Department of Education.

[Blood of Tyrants]

You might like to read about the Fully Informed Jury Association. The government has desperately been supressing juries' power to ignore a law that is arbitrary or just flat wrong. The power of jury nullification of laws that the jury thought tyrannical or stupid dates back to at least the Magna Carta.

[Roughneck]

"Furthermore, why should these kids be excemt from testing? Why must they be the exception to the rule?"


Public schools receive public funds, therefore children in public schools should be tested to make sure taxpayers are getting their money's worth.

Home-shool children do not receive federal funds and should be exempt form testing. If these children wish to attend a college, I am sure they would submit to entrance exams, but that is their choice (or their problem if home schooling did not bring them to the standards they need to succeed)

I say BRAVO to this family. If more of us would stand up to this tyranny this country would stand a chance...