[Gondring]

Get a grip.

Maybe you can tell me why this whole issue came up. If you read the opinion, you'd know that it was one of the kids reporting mistreatment by the father.

I am fully aware that such claims can be trumped up, and Social Services agencies can use such things to wield power, so I don't just accept the claim without question. But I do think that there are questions--whether about the parents or the agency and court, which said:

"Given the history of this family, which we need not discuss here, permitting the parents to educate the children at home by means of a credentialed tutor would likely pose too many difficulties for the tutor."

[stentorian conservative]

Oh I read it, what I could stomach that is. I stopped here:

‘No question is raised concerning the power of the state reasonably to regulate all schools, to inspect, supervise and examine them, their teachers and pupils; to require that all children of proper age attend some school, that teachers shall be of good moral character and patriotic disposition, that certain studies plainly essential to good citizenship must be taught, and that nothing be taught which is manifestly inimical to the public welfare.’

Here's what I don't understand; The kids are mistreated and educationally neglected enough to warrant placement in public school but not quite bad enough to warrant removal from the home? That makes the whole thing bunk.