Texas court rules against homeschoolers who expected rapture and stopped teaching kids

This is one of those cases I wish I had payed more attention to. One defense tactic employed was the 1972 Yoder case involving the Amish.and schooling beyond the 8th grade. A second tactic was logic, Christian logic - the Lawd, Christ Jebus is a comin back to earth.

When will people learn that children are not chattel, they have rights and one of those rights is education.. This is just another black-eye on the whole religious home-school movement and why better monitoring is needed.

A Texas court ruled this month that parents who allegedly stopped homeschooling their kids because they believed Jesus Christ was returning to Earth were not exempt from state education regulations.

According to a ruling last week by the Texas Eighth District Court of Appeals, Michael McIntyre and Laura McIntyre removed their nine children from a private school in 2004 to homeschool them.

Michael McIntyre’s twin brother, Tracy, testified that the parents used empty space in a motorcycle dealership that he co-owned as a classroom. But Tracy said that he never saw the children reading books, using computers or doing arithmetic. Instead, the children were seen playing instruments and singing.

“Tracy overhead one of the McIntyre children tell a cousin that they did not need to do schoolwork because they were going to be raptured,” the court document noted.

Texas court rules against homeschoolers who expected rapture and stopped teaching kids