Are we sure that there isn’t more going on here?
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Been there done that. The Father is just getting back at the Mother where it hurts, and the Judge is helping them. God have Mercy on His Wicked Soul.
Maybe there is more going on there, but forcing the mother to send her daughter to public school is a violation of her right to homeschool.
If some activist judge can do it for that reason to her, any activist judge can do it to any other homeschooler for the exact same reason.
It sets a dangerous precedent when the judge rules like this on a case where it’s clearly the non-custodial father is trying to mess up their lives.
The other thing is, in cases like this, the judgment usually tends to favor the public school side. Why do you suppose that is?
If there is some real issue about what the child is being taught religiously, then sending them to school is not the solution, unless the judge is implicitly stating that the schools are in fact, teaching religion.
After all, part of the ruling was that the mother’s religious teaching as the article implies here.....
“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.’”
Of course there is more going on here. Home schoolers are anathema to the left because they cannot propagandize them. I hope this family defies the court and dares it to put them in jail for educating their child as they deem appropriate.
Who gave the government the authority to determine school curriculum?
No. We're positive that there is a lot more going on. The federal government wants to take your children away from you and indoctrinate them to be good little liberal lemmings. Lemmings that do not worship the one and only true and living God (Elohim) and that DO worship o-bomb-a-nation.
Yes... There is a LOT going on here.
Remember, the United States Supreme Court that has, in the past, ruled in favor of parents and our children no longer exists.
Well, let's bring out the old checklist (sounds of rummaging)...
1. Story is filed by an advocacy group .... Check.
"CitizenLink" is Focus on the Family's "Action" arm.
2. All of the details are provided by the lawyers from one side ... Check.
3. Alleged reason for "bad" ruling is not stated in full, and is posted without the context or rationale in which it was made ... Check.
4. Important details of the story (messy divorce stuff) are missing ... Check.
Yup -- it's at least 95% certain that this is one of Those Stories .... the ones for which full details would get in the way of the outrage that the author would like to provoke.
There is almost certainly a WHOLE LOT more to this story, and I'll bet the full facts are not helpful to the trustworthiness of this story.
FOtF and the lawyers want to make this a story about faith and home-schooling; not surprising, as that's a large part of their target audience, not to mention their financial support.
I'm willing to bet that "faith and homeschooling" are secondary to the real issues ... such as, the mom may well be a whackadoodle, and the ruling was really about that.
I’m with you. “Rigid adherence” may, as apparent to the court actually involved, go so far beyond reasonable parental choice as to enter mental abuse or some such (say, parent totally isolating child socially for fear of contact with other belief systems - not enough harm to warrant taking the kid, but enough to say “enough, you’re abusing the situation”).
There’s more to the story.