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Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured
#22474429 - 11/04/15 03:33 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I would rather live next door to Syrian refugees than a family of homeschoolers. M3E
Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured
Laura and Michael McIntyre pulled their five children out of a private school in 2004 and began home-schooling them in an office at their El Paso motorcycle dealership. Now they are at the center of a lawsuit with the El Paso Independent School District after allegations their kids weren't getting an education because the family expected to be raptured.
Michael McIntyre's twin brother reportedly turned them in to the El Paso Independent School District, but grandparents were also involved:
In January 2006, the District received an anonymous complaint that the McIntyre children were not being educated. In November, Gene and Shirene met with Mark Mendoza, the District’s designated attendance officer, and expressed concerns that their grandchildren were not attending school or otherwise receiving a proper education. After the meeting, Mendoza confirmed that the oldest of the McIntyre children, Tori, had run away from home at age seventeen so she could “attend school.” He discovered that when Tori enrolled at Coronado High School, she was unable to provide any information regarding the level of her education or the curriculum provided as part of her home school education. The McIntyres refused to provide any information to the District on Tori’s behalf. As a result, Tori was placed as a second semester freshman, a year and a half behind her age group.
The El Paso school district repeatedly asked for evidence the children were getting an education and that's when the legal case began.
In court filings, the McIntyres say the district is biased against Christians and accuse its officials of mounting a "startling assertion of sweeping governmental power."
In home-school friendly Texas, the problem of home-schooling standards is big one:
The Texas Home School Coalition estimates 300,000 students are home schooled in the state - more than one-sixth of the national total.
No one knows for sure since Texas is one of 11 states that don't require home-school families to register. And 14 states have no subject requirements for what's taught, according to Coleman's Coalition for Responsible Home Education, which advocates for greater home-schooling accountability.
After eight years of lawsuits and appeals, the case is headed to the Texas Supreme Court this week:
Nine Republican justices heard arguments Monday on whether home-school students are required to learn anything. The McIntyre family says the El Paso school district’s attempt to verify learning violates its 14th Amendment rights.
Texas mandates that home-school children be taught basics like spelling and math. But, like many states, it doesn’t require testing or showing student progress.
Regardless of who wins the final appeal in Texas, it's clear the McIntyre kids are the unfortunate losers in the whole affair.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/02/1443509/-Court-hears-case-of-home-schoolers-who-didn-t-teach-their-kids-because-they-expected-to-be-raptured
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: my3rdeye] 3
#22474510 - 11/04/15 05:02 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Would Texas just secede already? It would solve so many problems. Of course, America would have to deal with the flood of uneducated illegal texans flooding over the border.
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: koods]
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It would solve a lot of problems, then Texas' 49 bitches could stop depending on us to keep this country going. You know Texas is home to the biggest refiners in the US?
Discounting "outside territories" The only other state that has a a refiner in the top 10 world wide, is Louisiana. Texas has 2, and it ranks below both of the Texas ones. That is only the top 10. I don't feel like Googling, but I woudln't doubt for a second that also operate the most refiners of any state.
Whether you want to admit it or not, a very large portion of what keeps this country going, is Texas. Texas is one of the few states that could actually succeed and survive. Clarification: Survive without a complete infrastructural overall or establish trade treaties with other peoples. We ca become our own country with little need to revamp anything. I could sit here listing all day why. Do some research. Us succeeding would be a disaster for this country.
You need us, more than we need you. Good luck with your energy crisis. It won't happen, but if it does, I don't want to hear a damn thing from you about gas prices among countless other gripes. I wish we would succeed. You know what our problem is? Leeches who can't run their own state to establish self sufficiently and have to rely on states like us to get by.
I do agree with you though, if we succored it would solve a lot of problems. We'd no longer have to deal morons who want to turn this state into California.
I'm petty, but I really wish we would succeed. Just so every time you or someone like you decides to bitch about sky high prices on the majority of commodities, I can throw it your face you couldn't hack it without us.
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: Shroomslip]
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I think it is interesting Texas isn't legally allowed to secede, but they can legally turn into 5 states.
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: Shroomslip]
#22474589 - 11/04/15 06:04 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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And that's too bad, I really wish we could sometimes. Partly to stop being held to other states expectations and partly to watch the rest of the country squirm and struggle. People love to make fun of us and act like we're some backwoods undevolved state. The fact is, we are a major reason this country can still exist. Some states can be independent, a lot can't though. They don't have the land or resources to do so. Texas is a VERY big state. We have access to "critical resources" right at home to support ours, and we have the land nessecary to provide for us. Alaska is bigger, in square miles, but the majority of it wasteland more or less.
If you want to hate on Texas, look some shit up life in the US would be very different if it didn't have Texas.
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: Shroomslip] 2
#22474603 - 11/04/15 06:15 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Shroomslip said: It would solve a lot of problems, then Texas' 49 bitches could stop depending on us to keep this country going. You know Texas is home to the biggest refiners in the US?
Discounting "outside territories" The only other state that has a a refiner in the top 10 world wide, is Louisiana. Texas has 2, and it ranks below both of the Texas ones. That is only the top 10. I don't feel like Googling, but I woudln't doubt for a second that also operate the most refiners of any state.
Whether you want to admit it or not, a very large portion of what keeps this country going, is Texas. Texas is one of the few states that could actually succeed and survive. Clarification: Survive without a complete infrastructural overall or establish trade treaties with other peoples. We ca become our own country with little need to revamp anything. I could sit here listing all day why. Do some research. Us succeeding would be a disaster for this country.
You need us, more than we need you. Good luck with your energy crisis. It won't happen, but if it does, I don't want to hear a damn thing from you about gas prices among countless other gripes. I wish we would succeed. You know what our problem is? Leeches who can't run their own state to establish self sufficiently and have to rely on states like us to get by.
I do agree with you though, if we succored it would solve a lot of problems. We'd no longer have to deal morons who want to turn this state into California.
I'm petty, but I really wish we would succeed. Just so every time you or someone like you decides to bitch about sky high prices on the majority of commodities, I can throw it your face you couldn't hack it without us.
The remaining 49 states are definitely going to have a shortage of chips that go on shoulders.
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: koods]
#22474914 - 11/04/15 08:10 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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koods said: Would Texas just secede already? It would solve so many problems. Of course, America would have to deal with the flood of uneducated illegal texans flooding over the border.
Texas has one of the best education systems. California has one of the worst. Umad?
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: Webster10]
#22474945 - 11/04/15 08:21 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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koods said: Would Texas just secede already? It would solve so many problems. Of course, America would have to deal with the flood of uneducated illegal texans flooding over the border.
Texas has one of the best education systems. California has one of the worst. Umad?
texas has also had a thriving economy through a recession, it's all that oil money, just imagine if texas did secede and cut the supply of oil to the US, imagine what gas prices would be like and given that we're still decades away from any viable alternatives to oil...
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: Prisoner#1]
#22475188 - 11/04/15 09:45 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Also, Tex-Mex. And Tex BBQ.
Texas will always be in my heart... as cholesterol. But still, <3
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: my3rdeye] 1
#22475242 - 11/04/15 09:56 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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my3rdeye said: I would rather live next door to Syrian refugees than a family of homeschoolers. M3E
So, there's one family of crazies, so everyone that homeschools is crazy?
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: Turtletotem]
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People only hate Texas because they aren't part of it.
Lookin at you Koods, you vagrant pot smoking lothario.
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: Prisoner#1] 1
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koods said: Would Texas just secede already? It would solve so many problems. Of course, America would have to deal with the flood of uneducated illegal texans flooding over the border.
Texas has one of the best education systems. California has one of the worst. Umad?
texas has also had a thriving economy through a recession, it's all that oil money, just imagine if texas did secede and cut the supply of oil to the US, imagine what gas prices would be like and given that we're still decades away from any viable alternatives to oil...
You know that oil prices are set on the world market. It doesn't matter if Texas were part of the US or not,just as it doesn't matter if Canada is or isn't. Lol. Please explain how Texas could cut the supply of oil to the US.
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: Turtletotem]
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Turtletotem said: Also, Tex-Mex. And Tex BBQ.
Texas will always be in my heart... as cholesterol. But still, <3
yeah, but that texas chili though...should just be called "meat blob"
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: Webster10]
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koods said: Would Texas just secede already? It would solve so many problems. Of course, America would have to deal with the flood of uneducated illegal texans flooding over the border.
Texas has one of the best education systems. California has one of the worst. Umad?
i was just wondering if there's any way you texans could convince your brethren who came to Ca. after katrina to go home? it shouldn't be too hard since Texas is so great
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: ballsalsa] 1
#22475406 - 11/04/15 10:31 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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koods said: Would Texas just secede already? It would solve so many problems. Of course, America would have to deal with the flood of uneducated illegal texans flooding over the border.
Texas has one of the best education systems. California has one of the worst. Umad?
Texas has the lowest percentage of high school graduates in the country. Lol
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: Shroomslip]
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Shroomslip said: It would solve a lot of problems, then Texas' 49 bitches could stop depending on us to keep this country going. You know Texas is home to the biggest refiners in the US?
Discounting "outside territories" The only other state that has a a refiner in the top 10 world wide, is Louisiana. Texas has 2, and it ranks below both of the Texas ones. That is only the top 10. I don't feel like Googling, but I woudln't doubt for a second that also operate the most refiners of any state.
Simple enough to solve we just sell your backwards asses back to Mexico and get them to give us a better prices on refining the oil.
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: my3rdeye]
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Way to classify an entire demographic based on the actions of a few 
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: r00tuuu123]
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Shroomslip said: It would solve a lot of problems, then Texas' 49 bitches could stop depending on us to keep this country going. You know Texas is home to the biggest refiners in the US?
Discounting "outside territories" The only other state that has a a refiner in the top 10 world wide, is Louisiana. Texas has 2, and it ranks below both of the Texas ones. That is only the top 10. I don't feel like Googling, but I woudln't doubt for a second that also operate the most refiners of any state.
Simple enough to solve we just sell your backwards asses back to Mexico and get them to give us a better prices on refining the oil.

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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: koods] 3
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koods said: Would Texas just secede already? It would solve so many problems. Of course, America would have to deal with the flood of uneducated illegal texans flooding over the border.
Texas has one of the best education systems. California has one of the worst. Umad?
Texas has the lowest percentage of high school graduates in the country. Lol
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/upshot/surprise-florida-and-texas-excel-in-math-and-reading-scores.html?_r=0
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Re: Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured [Re: Webster10]
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Oh. Well, if we are making excuses, i'll go ahead and blame California's shortcomings on Prop 13
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