By Selwyn Duke
It’s hard to think of anything more near and dear to our hearts, anything of which we’re more protective, than our children. It’s also hard to imagine a more important right than that to raise one’s children in accordance with the dictates of a well-formed conscience. Now, though, the 2nd Appellate Court in Los Angeles has abrogated that right, ruling that a homeschooling couple, Phillip and Mary Long, must enroll their two youngest children in a government school or "legally qualified" private one.
Columnist Bob Unruh points out that such actions have a chilling parallel:
"The words echo the ideas of officials from Germany, where homeschooling has been outlawed since 1938 under a law adopted when Adolf Hitler decided he wanted the state, and no one else, to control the minds of the nation’s youth."
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Posted by: Everettcl | March 26, 2008 at 03:57 PM