[Courier]

To some, all they need hear is "homeschool" and the implication is of Ward and June Cleaver doing best by the Beaver.

How do you know the parents aren't a couple of psychopaths?

Their making such a big deal out of a simple test makes me lean that way.

I want the State to make sure. Someday these kids are going to be released on all of us. Hopefully well educated and well adjusted, but we need a clue they are going in that direction.

[concerned about politics]

I want the State to make sure. Someday these kids are going to be released on all of us. Hopefully well educated and well adjusted, but we need a clue they are going in that direction.

Why? I'd be more concerned about the uneducated idiots comming out of the public schools.

[GOPrincess]

"How do you know the parents aren't a couple of psychopaths?"

But what happened until innocent until proven guilty? The Founding Fathers didn't design this to be a country where we had to disprove a negative in order to have personal freedom, including the right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their childre. (I don't go for the driver's license parallel, for the reasons I've stated previously...the testing is often inappropriate and not a true reflection of the child's education and abilities.)

Reading the article it seems to me that these are very caring, hands-on parents. The DSS admits the children are in no way abused (which makes it all the sillier the state has legal custody). You know, a few homeschooled children here and there are going to end up poorly educated. Life isn't perfect. But how many more children coming out of the public school system are poorly educated? With that in mind, and also keeping in mind that any private school students do not have to be tested, it seems to me that giving parents the benefit of the doubt, including the right to direct their children's education as they see fit, is the most appropriate choice.

[Hank Kerchief]

I want the State to make sure. Someday these kids are going to be released on all of us. Hopefully well educated and well adjusted, but we need a clue they are going in that direction.

Yes of course, because we know all the kids in state schools are tested and we know they are all well educated and well adjusted. The State makes sure of that.

Good grief! ...but then, if the state is where you're getting your clues, that might explain your credulity.

Hank

[TigersEye]

How do you know the parents aren't a couple of psychopaths?

Public school to the rescue!!!

Bwahahaha! The school counselor will give the kid a donut and a prozac-ritalin cocktail and all will be well.

I want the State to make sure. Someday these kids are going to be released on all of us. Hopefully well educated and well adjusted, but we need a clue they are going in that direction.

Someday all public schooled kids will be released on us. I want them all locked up, sterilized or shot judging from current results. Seig heil (Hail welfare), comrade!

[donmeaker]

What is the "We" kemosabe?

who are you to care? You think you care more than the parents? You presume the parents are ill?

[webber]

"How do you know the parents aren't a couple of psychopaths?"

Oh, I see, if the kids are educated in the pubic skoos, then they will go home and teach their parents that they should not be psychopaths, thus stopping the indoctrination process by their parents...right? NOT!!

[freebilly]

I want the State to make sure

And I want the State to take a flying f*** at a rolling donut....