Too religious to home school?

[SMKR]

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/01/27/too-religious-to-home-school/

[jdgregory84]

The story is pretty vague. With homeschooling aren't you required to teach a minimal curriculum? Is the kid gonna be 15 knowing everything about the bible, but can't do long division or tell us how many planets are in the solar system, or that the world revolves around the sun? I don't have any problems with a parent teaching their kid their religion, but if she's cut off from the rest of the world, what happens when she's introduced to the rest of the world as an adult?

(LOL at it being a blog. No wonder the story doesn't get into any detail. Lazy "journalism.")

[564826]

The story is pretty vague. With homeschooling aren't you required to teach a minimal curriculum? Is the kid gonna be 15 knowing everything about the bible, but can't do long division or tell us how many planets are in the solar system, or that the world revolves around the sun? I don't have any problems with a parent teaching their kid their religion, but if she's cut off from the rest of the world, what happens when she's introduced to the rest of the world as an adult?

She becomes a Striper and then on to Porn.

[jdgregory84]

She becomes a Striper and then on to Porn.

If she's hot, that's cool with me.

[78X]

She becomes a Striper and then on to Porn.

So she becomes a fish fucker?

[Denny]

The story is pretty vague. With homeschooling aren't you required to teach a minimal curriculum? Is the kid gonna be 15 knowing everything about the bible, but can't do long division or tell us how many planets are in the solar system, or that the world revolves around the sun? I don't have any problems with a parent teaching their kid their religion, but if she's cut off from the rest of the world, what happens when she's introduced to the rest of the world as an adult?

(LOL at it being a blog. No wonder the story doesn't get into any detail. Lazy "journalism.")

It said she had the other text books. It just looks like the father objected to either the religion itself or the priority the mother was placing on it.

And yes. Homeschool kids still need to be able to take placement tests, TAKS and a GED-like test in order to graduate. They must meet all testing requirements that all the other students have to meet.

My son is on a self-paced curriculum through Texas Tech University. They now have a web-based 9-12 grade program and are a legitimate Texas ISD. He still tests through the TAKS and in front of proctors. He doesn't have religion classes in the curriculum, though.

[jdgregory84]

It said she had the other text books. It just looks like the father objected to either the religion itself or the priority the mother was placing on it.

And yes. Homeschool kids still need to be able to take placement tests, TAKS and a GED-like test in order to graduate. They must meet all testing requirements that all the other students have to meet.

My son is on a self-paced curriculum through Texas Tech University. They now have a web-based 9-12 grade program and are a legitimate Texas ISD. He still tests through the TAKS and in front of proctors. He doesn't have religion classes in the curriculum, though.

If she's able to pass all of her required classes, I don't see any reason for government interference. If the father is concerned about how his daughter is being raised, he should be filing for custody.

[564826]

If she's able to pass all of her required classes, I don't see any reason for government interference. If the father is concerned about how his daughter is being raised, he should be filing for custody.

Very well said.

[90GT50]

She becomes a Striper and then on to Porn.

You mean like CRASH? I don't think Aaron's wife would approve of him moving on to porn...

[jones4stangs]

We are not told what the mother was teaching her child.

It's obviously not something that would be "main stream" Christianity.

“The judge,” explained Simmons, “said that Amanda reflected her mother’s rigidity in matters of Faith, and that because of that rigidity she needed to be ordered into government run schools. “

Rigidity is pc for what? For all we know her mother is some wacked out polygamist preparing her daughter to be married off at 13 to the local child molester.

[jones4stangs]

Original case with New Hampshire Superior Court

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108084

But the child's father, Martin Kurowski, who has joint custody, said she wasn't receiving the proper amount of social interaction and wanted her moved into public school.

The dispute arose as part of a modification of a parenting plan for the girl. The parents divorced in 1999 when she was a newborn, and the mother has homeschooled her daughter since first grade with texts that meet all state standards.

But during the process of negotiating the terms of the plan, a guardian ad litem appointed to participate concluded the girl "appeared to reflect her mother's rigidity on questions of faith" and that the girl's interests "would be best served by exposure to a public school setting" and "different points of view at a time when she must begin to critically evaluate multiple systems of belief ... in order to select, as a young adult, which of those systems will best suit her own needs."

OUCH!

[The King]

".....best served by exposure to a public school system", you betcha.