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

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/11/texas-court-rules-against-homeschoolers-who-expected-rapture-and-stopped-teaching-kids/

Texas court rules against homeschoolers who expected rapture and stopped teaching kids
By David Edwards
Monday, August 11, 2014 9:09 EDT

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.

[Ilsa]

1. Social darwinism. The state could let them destroy

their own warped family with their screwy beliefs.

Alternately, and preferably, the state's family protective services should keep them on a short leash so the kids will have a fighting chance. Poor kids.

[DhhD]

2. Does anybody know who promised them that the Rapture would occur? Contributing to the

delinquency of a minor, times nine, in my reckoning.