Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:03:40 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CCCC-USA] NH court orders home-schooled child into government-run school To: [email protected] WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN THE FAMILY The daughter rigorously defended her mother's religion? NOT HER OWN? Doesn't the US Constitution require the State NOT to establish anything on RELIGIOUS basis? I agree, the court definitely bit the big one here, and if left to stand, the PRECEDENCE would be scary. Hopefully, they in NV (North Virginia, the originally requested name for NH)can regain their RIGHTS and receive JUSTICE. If not, time to get new courts. This brings the total, imo, to TWO States that have violated the people's trusts. --- On Thu, 9/3/09, pcastora <[email protected]> wrote: From: pcastora <[email protected]> Subject: [CCCC-USA] NH court orders home-schooled child into government-run school To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 10:08 PM http://www.alliance alert.org/ 2009/09/03/ the-divided- house-in- new-hampshire- home-school- ruling/ The “divided house” in New Hampshire home school ruling Joseph Bottum, writing at First Things: “A divorced couple’s irreconcilable differences make what seems a very bad occasion for legal decisions with serious First Amendment implications . . . The Alliance Defense Fund has more information on the case, but consider just the court’s disposition, on its own terms: Without any expert testimony as to whether the status quo was causing ‘actual harm’ to the child—the standard, applicable criterion for deciding in favor of change in such cases—Judge Sadler decided that the daughter’s best interests were served by removing her from an academically sound home-schooling regimen with the mother and placing her in the public-school setting preferred by the father.” http://www.alliance defensefund. org/news/ story.aspx? cid=5050 NH court orders home-schooled child into government-run school ADF-allied attorney files motion to reconsider and hold off decision in case involving 10-year-old girl Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 1:45 PM (MST) | ADF Media Relations | 480-444-0020 LACONIA, N.H. — An Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney filed motions with a New Hampshire court Monday asking it to reconsider and stay its decision to order a 10-year-old home-schooled girl into a government-run school in Meredith. Although the marital master making recommendations to the court agreed the child is “well liked, social and interactive with her peers, academically promising, and intellectually at or superior to grade level” and that “it is clear that the home schooling... has more than kept up with the academic requirements of the...public school system,” he nonetheless proposed that the Christian girl be ordered into a government-run school after considering “the impact of [her religious] beliefs on her interaction with others.” The court approved the order. “Parents have a fundamental right to make educational choices for their children. In this case specifically, the court is illegitimately altering a method of education that the court itself admits is working,” said ADF-allied attorney John Anthony Simmons of Hampton. “The court is essentially saying that the evidence shows that, socially and academically, this girl is doing great, but her religious beliefs are a bit too sincerely held and must be sifted, tested by, and mixed among other worldviews. This is a step too far for any court to take.” The parents of the child divorced in 1999. The mother has home-schooled their daughter since first grade with curriculum that meets all state review standards. In addition to home schooling, the girl attends supplemental public school classes and has also been involved in a variety of extra-curricular sports activities. In the process of renegotiating the terms of a parenting plan for the girl, the guardian ad litem involved in the case concluded, according to the court order, that the girl “appeared to reflect her mother’s rigidity on questions of faith” and that the girl’s interests “would be best served by exposure to a public school setting” and “different points of view at a time when she must begin to critically evaluate multiple systems of belief...in order to select, as a young adult, which of those systems will best suit her own needs.” Marital Master Michael Garner reasoned that the girl’s “vigorous defense of her religious beliefs to [her] counselor suggests strongly that she has not had the opportunity to seriously consider any other point of view” and then recommended that the girl be ordered to enroll in a government school instead of being home-schooled. Judge Lucinda V. Sadler approved the recommendation and issued the order on July 14. “The New Hampshire Supreme Court itself has specifically declared, ‘Home education is an enduring American tradition and right...,’” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Mike Johnson. “There is clearly and without question no legitimate legal basis for the court’s decision, and we trust it will reconsider its conclusions.” Simmons filed his motions and supporting brief in the case In the Matter of Kurowski and Kurowski (Voydatch) with the Family Division of the Judicial Court for Belknap County in Laconia. __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Calendar What is The Answer To The Greatest Question? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097871461X?ie=UTF8&seller=A1AVPSERX4QF0E&sn=jperna12 Click here to find out about Answer To The Greatest Question: http://reasonmustprevail.org/ or http://1smartest.net/ Visit the ultimate resource for defending liberty CLICK HERE: http://targetfreedom.typepad.com:80/ 1. 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