[ConstitutionLover]

You'd have to take up your criticism of the wording of the State Constitution with John Adams which I assume you'd have a great deal of difficulty doing.

No one would claim that the children are illiterate or even poorly educated. The problem here is that the Bryants in their zeal for defying the laws of the State of Massachusetts lost custody of their children so now the state who has custody is calling the shots, or at least trying to. If they had cooperated long ago and simply satisfied the very minimal requirements of the local school district, which by the way, does not necessarily require testing, they would have retained custody and been left alone except for filing a very simple annual education plan. Their refusal to cooperate at even the most basic level with any kind of government oversight is what has handed the home schooling movement a tremendous setback. We should be condemning their actions instead of applauding them.

[CyberCowboy777]

If the colonist had cooperated long ago and simply satisfied the very minimal requirements of the king they would have been left alone except for filing a very simple annual taxation plan.

How much capitulation should we give the government regarding our inalienable right to self-determination? How much Government involvement is to much? When can we say enough is enough? When they start teaching what they feel like and stop teaching what the parents want? When they start arresting people for not going to school meetings? When they start arresting and taking children because they do not want them to take a test.

You are an apologist for the King.