Speaking of homeschooling...

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Can parents kill their children?

Can they mistreat them? Physically or sexually abuse them?

Imprison them in cages?

Withhold nutrition, stunting their growth?

Withhold lifesaving medical care?

Give them illicit drugs?

All these things happen to children all the time. Should the govt. interfere?

I guess I deserved that, as I strayed from the original question about parents having a right to not have a school to which to send their kids.

My answer is that if parents feel they can better educate their kids than the government, then yes, they should have that right. I wouldn't do it, but I don't think the government should not allow it.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

I guess I deserved that, as I strayed from the original question about parents having a right to not have a school to which to send their kids.

My answer is that if parents feel they can better educate their kids than the government, then yes, they should have that right. I wouldn't do it, but I don't think the government should not allow it.

But you think that parents can choose to not educate their children at all?

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by BigFatMeanie

If states can specify and enforce that parents must give their kids medical care then why not specify and enforce what parents feed their children in order to prevent childhood obesity?

This is starting to happen. In 2006, Bill Clinton and the American Heart Association forced Coke, Pepsi and Schwepps to "voluntarily" stop selling soda in elementary schools.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

But you think that parents can choose to not educate their children at all?

How many parents would actually do this?

[JohnnyLingo]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

This is starting to happen. In 2006, Bill Clinton and the American Heart Association forced Coke, Pepsi and Schwepps to "voluntarily" stop selling soda in elementary schools.

This happened in Idaho Falls schools recently. Turns out the sports programs at most schools were financed almost entirely off of money from Pepsi or Coke or whoever and they're struggling now.

Kinda ironic.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

How many parents would actually do this?

Lots. They say they are homeschooling their kids, but they don't.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Lots. They say they are homeschooling their kids, but they don't.

Do you have numbers to prove this? Or is this your opinion?

Again, I would never homeschool my kids. My job is to teach them the important things, like what pitch to throw in the late innings of a game to a batter who is left-handed and is 3-5 in the game so far when there are runners at the corners with 1 out and trying to protect a 2 run lead, but I digress.

My wife and I made the decision to put our two youngest in private school this year and they'll remain there until they are out of elementary school. We've had to make a few sacrifices, but we chose to do so because the school district brought in a completely incompetent idiot who pretty much ruined the last school at which she was the principal. The district sent our previous principal - who is an outstanding principal and made our elementary school one of the best in the state - to fix the mess the new principal made at the other school.

Those who decide to homeschool their kids because they think the world is evil may be nuts, but I don't think a court should tell them they don't have the constitutional right to teach their kids at home.

I get the feeling that you lump all the homeschoolers into the same category based on those that you have been around. Perhaps they're all nut cases in Texas, but that doesn't mean they're all nut cases in the other 49 states.



Your comments seem to be based on a bias against homeschoolers.