Thursday, March 19, 2009
A North Carolina judge is under fire, and rightly so, after he forced a homeschooling mother to enroll her three children in public schools. Because they were receiving such a poor education at home? No. In fact, WorldNetDaily reports the judge's comments:
...Ms. Mills had done a good job [in homeschooling]....It was great for them to have that access, and [I had] no problems with homeschooling. I said public schooling would be a good complement."
And yet, he also told the mother:
It will do them a great benefit to be in the public schools, and they will challenge some of the ideas that you've taught them, and they could learn from that and make them stronger.
Really? A 10, 11, and 12 year old child should be "challenging" what their mother has taught them, even though their home education had been "good?" It seems to me that this judge is speaking out of both sides of his mouth and clearly knows nothing about properly parenting children.
But the plot thickens: this is a custody dispute between an adulterous father and a churchgoing mother. Who has the judge sided with? Why, the adulterous father, of course:
The father's submitted a statement admitting adultery, but the judge's ruling said he "became completely miserable in the marriage" and attributed that to "Ms. Mills involving herself and [the] children in the Sound Doctrine Church to such a degree that [the] entire household was turned upside down."
Ah, yes. It's all the mother's fault. How dare she come home and quote Scripture to her adulterous husband! How dare she pray in front of him! How dare she try to get him to attend church with his family instead of carousing with other women!
Hey, hubby, newsflash: Why didn't you get up off your posterior and take your family to church in the first place? You left the spiritual leadership of your home to your wife, you selfish--okay, you get my point.
This is appalling to me. Not only did this father shirk his spiritual responsibility to his wife and children, he is fighting spiritual accountability now by requesting that his children be forced back into the indoctrination of the secular public school system. Is it for their "good" or is it just to spite his non-adulterous wife? What are his children being taught by their adulterous father?
Way to go, Dad. You're a real winner. So is the judge who fell for your "poor, neglected husband" act.
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2 comments:
Okay, this dad is not getting the "Dad of the year award" this year.
This mom was just doing what was best for her children and the judge pretty much slapped her in the face by doing this to her.
I hope for the kids sake they get the education they deserve.
My children were placed into the school system after our separation and divorce (initiated by the husband on both counts) and after 9 years of homeschooling (4 post-separation) so that they could ostensibly learn to "navigate the halls of a public school".
This despite all the children being at least 3 grades ahead academically and testing well above their peers in terms of maturity and emotional balance.
Today, although largely bored with the school system and easily maintaining A averages, we look to enrich outside of school through excellence in music and art.
This is nothing more than what I went through - the father has lost his values and doesn't want the children's mom to teach them good moral values.
Heaven help that the children might tell daddy adultery is a sin.
God bless
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