[colderwater]

This whole thread is a fascinating; how so many people can get so emotional about other people's kids. In my opinion, some parents are far better qualified to teach their kids than their local school system. Other parents are sure to be a hopeless disaster. But most us do not have the time to home-school; therefore home-schoolers will always be a minority. Why should we care about them one way or the other?

For all its powers to intervene in emergencies, the state is not the responsible party when it comes to child rearing decisions, parents are. Home schooling is not an emergency.

In a (still) free society, I think parents should choose what is best for their kids. Then let natural selection take its course. It is cruel but effective.

As for the mother in the news story: it doesn't pay to be stupid in America.

-cw

[southern rock]

In a (still) free society, I think parents should choose what is best for their kids. Then let natural selection take its course. It is cruel but effective.

It is not cruel. It is called freedom. Unfortunately, we live in a country where the government has decreed that being "poorly educated" (whatever that means) is a fate worse than death, and, worse yet, that parents do not have the right to have poorly educated or uneducated children.