Disturbing court rulings of neglect re homeschooling

Yes, thanks for those astute observations, cowpocci.  You are correct about their "following the playbook":  Obviously ,  a case where a mother wants to school her child at home after he has been picked on and issued a death threat,  is NOT in any way similar to the alcoholic who keeps their child home to listen to their problems,  etc.  REALLY, where is common sense?  I think Rhonda should be awarded a settlement for having been put in the abusers data file.  This is a GROSS miscarriage of justice, and really,  really scary.  Also,  sue the child's parents who issued a death threat.  This case is frightening to me;  extremely disturbing.   

smk, your coverage of this story is deeply appreciated. Thank you:)!

Great story, and so on point.

Roy: It just ain't PC to home school your kids. And when something is not PC, the state needs to inject itself for the good of all.

These awful people that home school their kids are just a bunch of right wing whackos. Many of them are Christians and that's a danger all by itself let alone an extreme danger to the kids. The parents of home schooled kids have no regard for the first amendment to the Declaration of Independence which explicitly states: There shall be a wall of separation between all churches and the state.

Moreover: Look at how socially deprived home schooled kids are. In a public school setting they get to mingle with children of different ethnic, cultural,  and socio economic backgrounds. Indeed, there's no diversity in a home school setting. To deprive a child of diversity and multiculturalism is one of the worst forms of child abuse. America's strength is its diversity!

Quite frankly, home schooling should be outlawed.

Other children in the North Tonawanda school that he was attending began to pick on him, finally culminating in a written death threat that he received. It was then that Rhonda pulled him from school for his own protection.

I have a special treatment for bullies and people that send anonymous death threats. You've all seen Captain Chris advertised here--well I can teach Captain Chris a few tricks! lol!

NANUTE! WHAT'S THE WORD FROM 6th AVENUE? Aren't you going to chime in here?

Ding Dong! The story about the couple not registering the lesson plan with the school district seems like a case of  self inflicted victimization. I don't have all the facts related to the case, but I'd hazard a guess that these parents, (good, god fearing folks), just didn't want the State telling them how to raise their children. Was it a case of over-zealous prosecution? Who knows? (How many times did the district try to get the parents to comply with the rule?) If you think the State does not have a responsibility to insure that children receive an education, in or out of the classroom, then I guess these parents are justified in their insistence of not complying with the law, and are victimized.

On a personal note: I had a run in with NY State Dept. of Social Services many years ago. I have two boys, 10 years apart in age. One night, my wife and I left the 4 year old home with the 14 year old. Now, the little one was a screamer and a whiner. While we were out, one of our concerned, anonymous neighbors reported to social services that there might be a case of neglect or abuse going on in the house.  When the investigator from SS came to the house he informed us of the report, and asked to speak with the boys away from our presence. I told him if he thought we were abusive or neglectful parents, he should take the boys with him. The boys started screaming and begging not to be taken away, and I never heard or saw the investigator again. One of my neighbors was questioned by the investigator, and he told him, that as far as he was concerned, we didn't abuse the kids enough! True story.