Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn't teach their kids because they expected to be raptured

[Panich52]

Daily Kos

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. ... the oldest of the McIntyre children, Tori, had run away from home at age seventeen so she could “attend school.” ...

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."

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[goldent]

1. I wonder if the rapture argument

could be used as an excuse for not having your homework done. Dogs can only eat so much.

[Panich52]

2. Har

[thucythucy]

3. What? God only wants uneducated people

to be "raptured?"

I hope all these kids are able to get some independence and a decent education.

It's a shame what some parents try to do to their children.