Thursday, March 01, 2007

Family court judge discovers homeschooling

William Duncan writes:





1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I just saw a link to your site on Google during a search I was making on there and read this post.

Why is it the government assumes parents are incompetant and clueless about child-rearing and schooling?

Parents are the ones God ordained to HAVE the children. If someone is given into your care, you are responsible for that person. While, of course, there are countless people who ARE incompetant, their idiocy should not be imputed to all the parents doing their job well. And certainly, it's completey stupid to say, instead of parents, government officials are the best child-rearers.

I've been homeschooled all my life, along with my three younger siblings. I'm about to start a Biology major at Grove City College in PA (which has, I believe, the second-worst homeschooling laws in the USA. New York is worse, apparantly), and I'm not ill-socialized, mentally unstable, or likely to want to start any sort of rebellion.

Unless, of course, you count my utter hatred for large-government meddlesomeness and an unreasonable desire to kick the poor minions of PA's wretched public school-system whenever we have to deal with them. Which is often.

The red tape in this country is awful. In the court system, as you obviously know, it causes legal battles to continue for years, and ultimately defeats its own purpose.

To use another law-example, some people want to ban guns. However, banning private ownership of guns is not going to get rid of the problem.

In fact, it will be worsened. All of the law-obiding citizens who are responsible and would be safe gun owners, will obey the anti-gun law, while the scoundrels who don't care and who are the ones wanting to break into homes and businessess, will still find ways to obtain guns.

Then what do we have? We have the baddies with the guns, and the husbands and fathers left with only their teeth and nails to try and defend their homes.

If they do manage to take down the intruder without a weapon, they'll probably get sued for Assault with Primitive Weapons (joke).

Pardon my intruding upon your site and time, but I just thought I'd throw in my two cents worth.