I don't think this is the first such case and it won't be the last. Many similar cases arise when a couple divorces and one "gets religion" or falls away from the faith that unified the family. A man is divorcing his wife and insists as part of the divorce that the wife stop homeschooling and put the children in a private school.
The STL PD article doesn't delve into why the couple is divorcing or why he wants the children in a school, except that he complains that the wife is getting emotional needs met through the homeschooling. Yeah? That's called being a mother, bud. Is he not getting the attention he wants? Does he have a honey on the side? Does he want to be sure the wife goes to work so his child-support, alimony are minimized? I don't know the man's motives, but I don't think they're good. Divorce is never good or fun; arguably necessary at time, but not good.
Local homeschoolers will be rallying outside the court when the trial begins. The mother's lawyer is disappointed in the public spectacle being made by the mom. Everything is apparently at issue in this divorce. Poor, poor children!
*See Bud and Bai McFarlane for a prominent and Catholic example of such a mess.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
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It will be an interesting legal question. It probably depends on who gets custody. If it is shared custody, the judge may decide based on the qualifications of the mother to teach. Only about 10% of home schooling parents have any kind of formal training or other qualifications for teaching. I can see the father's point - but it depends on the quality of the home schooling. I know family in which the father has two masters degrees and the mother has a Ph.D. in early childhood education. Their boys are homeschooled and are also socially mature as scouts, soccer players, and other sports. From what I've seen such home school successes are the minority.
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