California Justice H. Walter Croskey recently said that “parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children” - now I’m not American but there’s one part of me that says he’s full of shite and parents should have the right to educate their own children if they so wish, then I think about the Jesus Camp freaks (and other assorted wackos) and wonder if I’m wrong and Croskey is right.
This, and a few other issues, represent real sticking points for me.
I would like to believe that if a parent believes that the state sanctioned education program, offered in state sanctioned over crowded schools, and taught by state sanctioned underpaid teachers, is failing their children I think they should have the right to pull their kid(s) out of school and do it themselves; provided that when it’s all over with those kids can pass a test that can determine if they have, or have not, met the minimum requirements for moving from one grade level to the next.
…… then people the Jesus Camp freaks come to mind and I think that taking the poor kids out of those homes completely would be a mercy to them, and that at the very least they should have 8 hours a day away from such stupidity.
What (other than the fact that they haven’t killed anybody yet) is the difference between them and other religious extremists, and should they have the right to pass that sort of ignorance on to another generation?
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“… and I think that taking the poor kids out of those homes completely would be a mercy to them …”
I see where you’re going with this. Break the cycle. Bring them into line with broader liberal values. It would be for their own good.
We could call them residential schools.