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NH Judge orders homeschooled Christain girl into public school.

By: wayneinnh (Diary)  |  August 30th, 2009 at 09:35 AM  | 

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Crossposted from The Fallen World.

The Alliance Defense Fund has reported that Judge Lucinda V. Sadler has ordered a 10 year old girl into public school. The order can be found here.

One would think the underlying reason is of course that the mother is not providing a proper education causing the child to fall behind other children in her age group. Apparently that is not the case since the court order states she is “well liked, social and interactive with her peers, academically promising, and intellectually at or superior to grade level” and that “it is clear that the home schooling…has more than kept up with the academic requirements of the…public school system”. So that’s not it. Her education is excelling.

Maybe it’s the new liberal mantra about children not being able to interact with other children because of their sheltered lives. Again, this would not seem to pass muster since she attends the local public school to take art, Spanish, and gym classes. The public school instructors have also commented that she is well rounded in her social skill.

No. It seems the reason the reason this child was ordered into the public option to quote Marital Master Michael Garner, “vigorous defense of her religious beliefs to [her] counselor suggests strongly that she has not had the opportunity to seriously consider any other point of view.” Digest that for a minute.

What this appears to say is, we as Christian parents have to allow our children to consider other religious points of view without a vigorous defense of our Christian beliefs or risk government intervention? And the best way to prevent our Christian beliefs from being passed to our children is by enrolling them in public schools.

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  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    that prompted the judge’s decision but the conspiracy theorist in me thinks custody is being used here to further diminish home schooling as a viable option to the public indoctrination centers schools. It’s why I think Obama was so quick to cancel the voucher program in DC. BTW, anyone else notice how quickly that faded from the headlines? No word on if the parents are trying to get it back or not. There were a few voices of protest about it then… nuthin’. Of course, I usually don’t see much local DC news, just the BS that comes off Capitol Hill and the White House.

    It just seems someone is afraid this girl won’t be getting her mind right politically now that she’s getting closer to her teens (Liberalism Progressiveism is good, Republicans are bad. Here, sweetie, have some Kool-Aid).

  • mom2oneson

    These headlines only scare parents that are married when it seems like a majority of the time they come out of custody/divorce cases. I wish they would point out upfront how the case got before a judge in the first place.

  • mom2oneson

    it’s not letting me reply to this under my comment.
    My kowalski is that the “GAL” is another one of those things involved where someone has no qualifications whatsoever to be making decisions. I see this a lot with programs for the poor too. I’m not equating academic credentials with good judgement or common sense and we all know how liberal the fields of psychology and social work are but GAL are basically off the street. I see ads all the time at the community college to sign up for it.

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  • Achance

    clear your cache/history, and log back into RS. At least that works for me using IE8. It’s becoming a bit of a PITA because I have to do it fairly frequently.

  • SteveLA

    mom2oneson

    If you spend the time to read the judges order you find two divorced parents who have different views on matters related to the raising of their child. This disagreement was resolved according to the laws of the state and an agreement made by the parents when they divorced. A Judge on advice of trained professionals made an order and it looks like the decision made what looks like a reasonable and well informed look at all the facts.

    There’s probably more to the story of a divorced couple, including financial arrangements predicated on schooling arrangements, but there’s no information on that aspect, so that’s pure speculation.

    As Paul Harvey used to say, “The rest of the story” is often more informative than the surface presentation of the facts of the story.

  • http://thefallenworld.wordpress.com/ wayneinnh

    does not diminish the fact that this child is excelling in her education, participating in extra curricular activities, and has no social problems with her peers. The decision to remove her from being home schooled, an environment in which she was thriving, was her fervent faith. The complainant, her father, and the GAL did not say there was any harm being done. She was just overly concerned about her father going to hell when he leaves this life.

  • mom2oneson

    My son upgraded to IE8 about two weeks ago..I forgot to warn him not to!
    I had to switch to firefox for work, IE8 gave me too many problems.

  • mom2oneson

    against homeschooling, judges/lawyers/social workers/psychologist/whole system is very liberal but these cases are usually custody cases but they are not presented like that up front. So Mrs Jane Doe that will never be near a family court panicks unecessarily when she sees this. I think “the system” is horrible but unless they are divorced most homeschoolers will never see a judge regarding thier home education.

  • mom2oneson

    there being more to the story. Who knows what prompted that trip to family court.

  • mom2oneson
  • SteveLA

    mom

    Two divorced parents, where we really do not know the reason behind the divorce, and one is clearly wants one sort of upbringing and the other is not on the same page. I guess that’s goes to your comment about divorce.

    If this was a legal action about tension on other issues that arise between divorced parents would anyone actually care?

  • bantamwait

    Et tu, New Hampshire?

  • Flagstaff

    in NH would fall under the heading of “not [having] the opportunity to seriously consider any other point of view.”

    But what small jurisdiction judge wants to fight with people who might want to cut off his head? And who teach how to do it in their schools.

  • mom2oneson
  • mom2oneson

    That is the reason they are in court. For some reason the father felt the need to change her schooling situation.

    I just have a major problem the way these cases are presented.