Does a school board have the right to bring teens before them to prove their religious exemption for home schooling is justified and do they have the right to follow it up with imprisonment of the parents if they don’t comply?
This is happening in the United States.
Goochland County, Virginia School Board is demanding parents and their children justify their religious beliefs under interrogation. The Board changed their policy and now, once a child is 14 or older, the child has to state whether their beliefs are in accord with their parents’ beliefs. They are then to be brought before the board for interrogation so the board can determine if their beliefs are bona fide.
This is a school government daring to tell parents and their children if their beliefs are acceptable.
If the board doesn’t think the child has the beliefs of the parents, the exemption is withdrawn.
If parents don’t comply, they will be forwarded for criminal prosecution. There is also a fine.
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It seems to me that if the Federal Government can get away with a stealth takeover of education via Common Core, then concomitantly (love that word), a federal law should be passed that reaffirms the individual parents' right to home school their own children for any reason or no reason other than because they want to homeschool. No one should have to prove a religious reason.
ReplyDeletehome school their own children for any reason or no reason other than because they want to homeschool.
DeleteAgreed and don't know why Virginia is stricter than NC. Here there is nothing, but telling them you will homeschool and you get a card affirming such.
I am sure an appeal to Governor McAuliffe will help (not).
ReplyDelete:) Screw him and the horse he rode in on. I did send the link to the HSLDA.
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