In North Carolina a judge has decided that a divorcing family’s children shall no longer be home schooled.
A judge in Wake County said three Raleigh children need to switch from home school to public school. Judge Ned Mangum is presiding over divorce proceeding of the children’s parents, Thomas and Venessa Mills.
Venessa Mills testified that her children are testing at two grade levels HIGHER than their age, also, “All sides agree the children have thrived with home school.”
All sides… even the judge.
If the children are testing two grades higher, and the judge also agrees the children are thriving the why in the world the judge insist on removing these children from such an environment? Personal preference it would seem: In a verbal ruling, Mangum said the children should go to public school. “He was upfront and said that, ‘It’s not about religion.’ But yet when it came down to his ruling and reasons why, ‘He said this would be a good opportunity for the children to be tested in the beliefs that I have taught them,'” Venessa Mills said.
Well then you your esteemed Honor, she should obviously thank you for determining when, where, and how her thriving children should be tested. While it is true the father (involved with the divorce) did not want his children to remain in home-schooling, the mother did. It should seem obvious that, unless the children were being put in harm’s way, falling behind in their studies, or otherwise not developing into adjusted young citizens, that if the mother is good enough to retain custody and her children are thriving in that environment, then the judge should keep the county out of their home. Preferences split equally, one party wishes one thing, the other wishes something different; only an activist judge would step in to meddle with the current situation in order to make it conform to his own personal preferences.
This is not a matter for any governing body to attend, yet in our current society it is too, too common.
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