AG Eric Holder's new campaign: to ban homeschooling

[Zundfolge]

...this idiot supports his case by saying there's nothing in the Constitution that guarantees a right to homeschooling...

Actually there is text in the Constitution that guarantees the right to home schooling: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.


There is no power delegated to the Federal government to force children into indoctrination centers ... er ... schools. Period. Therefore you do have the absolute constitutional right to NOT send your children to government schools.

But like I said in another thread, the 10th Amendment has been dead for longer than most of us have been alive.

Well, although MOST homeschoolers have the best intentions and actually teach their children the same subjects they'd learn in a public school, there are a lot of horror stories too. Believe it or not, some parents would just claim to "homeschool" their kids without teaching them anything: either to use for unpaid labor, or to prevent them from telling anyone about abuse at home, or to prevent any semblance of socialization with people outside of their weird cult. I agree 100% that NCLB was designed to fail our children, teachers, and schools . . . but if you claim to be "homeschooling" your kids, having their knowledge be tested once a year is quite reasonable and a safeguard against abuses. Believe me when I tell you that "homeschooling" has been used simply as an excuse to pull children out of public schools with no attempt made to educate them.

Contrary to public opinion, it is not the job of the Federal Government (nor do they have the right to make it their job) to prevent child abuse. At best it is the job of the states to come up with laws and rules defining "abuse".

More people have been abused by and failed in government run schools then have been home schooled. If the simple fact that there are rare examples of home schooling parents abusing their children is enough to allow it to be banned then public schools should also be banned.



Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-C. S. Lewis