Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

N.H. Court Orders Home-Schooled Girl into Public School
CitizenLink ^ | 8-27-09 | Staff

Posted on 08/27/2009 11:21:03 PM PDT by kingattax

The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has asked a New Hampshire court to reconsider its decision to order a 10-year-old home-schooled girl into public school.

"Parents have a fundamental right to make educational choices for their children," said ADF-allied attorney John Anthony Simmons. "In this case, the court is illegitimately altering a method of education that the court itself admits is working."

The parents of the girl are divorced, and the mother has been home-schooling her. In the process of renegotiating the terms of a parenting plan for the girl, the guardian ad litem concluded that the girl "appeared to reflect her mother's rigidity on questions of faith" and that the girl's interests "would be best served by exposure to a public school setting."

Judge Lucinda V. Sadler approved the recommendation and issued the order July 14.

"The New Hampshire Supreme Court itself has specifically declared, 'Home education is an enduring American tradition and right,' " said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Mike Johnson. "There is clearly and without question no legitimate legal basis for the court's decision, and we trust it will reconsider its conclusions."

Mike Donnelly, staff attorney at the Home School Legal Defense Association, agreed this is "not the place for the courts to be inserting themselves."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: adf; homeschool; newhampshire
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 161-180181-200201-220221-227 next last
To: P-Marlowe

To clarify what I wrote. The commands of God are for Christians. Unbelievers have no part in that. Civil ceremonies and divorces should be reserved for unbelievers. Christians (husband and wife equally yoked) should have religious ceremonies and shouldn’t have divorces. If we had it to do over, we wouldn’t marry under civil law. We will teach our children differently especially now that gay “marriage” had become legal in some places.


181 posted on 08/28/2009 9:05:04 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 177 | View Replies]

To: P-Marlowe
Thanks for the discussion, but if I keep posting here, I will soon join the ranks of the divorced.

'In my youth,' said his father, 'I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life.' --Alice in Wonderland

Give your wife a big hug and kiss for her patience.

182 posted on 08/28/2009 9:07:34 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://aroodawakening.tv)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 180 | View Replies]

To: P-Marlowe

Yes freerepublic can be as bad as having an affair! :)My hubby isn’t home tonight so he doesn’t know I am neglecting him LOL! Goodnight.


183 posted on 08/28/2009 9:08:20 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 180 | View Replies]

To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3
She was found to be academically and socially well adjusted.
What grade level did she perform to; suitable for her age?

Others might accept "She was found to be academically and socially well adjusted" but that doesn't directly address the point I raised earlier ...

(There may be no direct answer to that question, I realize that, but I'm still posing it as a point of order.)

184 posted on 08/28/2009 9:12:03 PM PDT by _Jim (class of '98)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 176 | View Replies]

To: _Jim

Tested above grade level.


185 posted on 08/28/2009 9:15:01 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 184 | View Replies]

To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3

That settles it then.


186 posted on 08/28/2009 9:20:00 PM PDT by _Jim (class of '98)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 185 | View Replies]

To: _Jim

She was attending several classes in the public school and those teachers found her to be academically and socially well adjusted. She wasn’t secluded by any stretch of the imagination, but seemed to have a fairly balanced system.


187 posted on 08/28/2009 9:22:02 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 184 | View Replies]

To: ican'tbelieveit

A self proclaimed pro-Christian web site gave some cherry picked quotes and called it “Christian.” FRiend, a lot of things purport to be “Christian” today, even talking the lingo, that come with a closet full of abominable skeletons. Case in point, Obama’s “witness” last year at Saddleback Church.


188 posted on 08/29/2009 1:06:21 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 134 | View Replies]

To: HiTech RedNeck

Again, unless it is proven the activity is criminal, it is our RIGHT to worship freely. Unless you are into limiting that.


189 posted on 08/29/2009 1:17:57 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 188 | View Replies]

To: ican'tbelieveit

If I were the father who believed in an orthodox gospel and knew the mother was into magic mushroom “Christianity” I’d do all I could to get the daughter to a less insane situation. If I was too poor for a private school I’d choose the least scandalous public institution possible.


190 posted on 08/29/2009 1:21:05 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 189 | View Replies]

To: HiTech RedNeck

Then maybe, as a dad, you shouldn’t have messed up your marriage to begin with. Already been hashed through.


191 posted on 08/29/2009 1:25:23 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 190 | View Replies]

To: HiTech RedNeck

OOH... even more funny, calling a public school the least scandalous option... oh my gosh, cracking me up. I should go back to bed, darn insomnia.


192 posted on 08/29/2009 1:26:25 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 190 | View Replies]

To: ican'tbelieveit

Quite the joke, that doing wrong in the past (if indeed the chief wrongdoing wasn’t on the part of the missus — note the judge favored the dad) precludes one from doing right in the present and future.


193 posted on 08/29/2009 12:04:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 191 | View Replies]

To: ican'tbelieveit

You might learn to read some day.


194 posted on 08/29/2009 12:05:15 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 192 | View Replies]

To: kingattax; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
+

Freep-mail me to get on or off my pro-life and Catholic List:

Add me / Remove me

Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of interest.

Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

195 posted on 08/29/2009 12:05:53 PM PDT by narses (http://www.theobamadisaster.com/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: antiunion person
the girl “appeared to reflect her mother's rigidity on questions of faith” and that the girl's interests “would be best served by exposure to a public school setting.”

This appears to be a pretty open and blatant statement that the purpose of the order is to alter the religious viewpoints of the child. As such, it is completely unconstitutional.

196 posted on 08/29/2009 12:08:56 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: narses

Leave New Hampshire.


197 posted on 08/29/2009 12:30:10 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Bigger government is not reform.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 195 | View Replies]

To: metmom

With or without a court order prohibiting her from leaving the state with the child, there is an Interstate Compact agreed to by all 50 states that requires that orders regarding custody and details of same be honored in all the other states. This case is one that suggests that we begin depriving courts of much of their jurisdiction over such matters. One more area where our rights of appeal are only to God Himself from the doings of a court system absolutely run amok.


198 posted on 08/29/2009 12:53:20 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: ican'tbelieveit

“All they want to hear is that the wife is to be subservient and do everything he wishes.”

Umm, excuse me.

While it is true that all libtards are vile scoundrels, it is not true that all men are libtards.


199 posted on 08/29/2009 1:59:23 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 157 | View Replies]

To: wmfights
There is a principle in courts of equity (such as this divorce court) called "laches." It was not designed specifically for divorce matters, homeschooling matters, parental disputes over the upbringing of children or cases involving your next door neighbors' pit bull attacking passersby. It is a very general principle.

Without needlessly fancy and obscure legal definition, the principle of laches essentially means: If you have rights but do not assert them for a very long time, you lose those rights.

In this case, the father may well have had some sort of legitimate claim to assert that he preferred gummint skeweling for his daughter. That I personally cannot imagine an excuse that would justify gummint skeweling is irrelevant. She is his kid and her mom's kid and not my kid. And not the judge's kid either. It is conceded by the "marital master" that this young lady is well-adjusted and doing very well academically and otherwise. This is not some strange cult situation where Mom is locking the daighter in the basement. Indeed (although not at all necessary) she sends the young lady to gummint skewels for "supplemental classes" in subjects which Mom probably does not feel a sense of confidence teaching. The young lady has been thriving in homeschooling for about five years and likely more. Dad did nothing to change the arrangements until now. What he proposes is to fix something that is not broken for whatever reason of his own of whatever validity.

I think Dad should bear a heavier burden, at least, for sitting on his rights all those years and only now going to court to upset his daughter's applecart. The young lady is also reaching an age where her views ought to be taken into consideration (not obeyed but simply given consideration).

The young lady is also NOT the "marital master's" kid.

Granted that we are only hearing from Mom's attorney and there may well be another side to this story, no one seems to deny that the child has thrived under the status quo. In a secular court, it does not particularly matter what anyone thinks Scripture has to say. Scripture is not binding on secular courts nor should it be. Ours is not a sectarian society. However, it also does not matter that the "marital master" thinks the young lady's views overly rigid in matters religious. It is simply NONE of his bidness.

200 posted on 08/29/2009 2:36:48 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 75 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 161-180181-200201-220221-227 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson