To me this could have been resolved if the mother had driven the papers to the school after it was noticed that the school never got the fax. Even though I went to Catholic School, the public school was only a few miles from my house. My mother could easily taken papers over to the school had she homeschooled me. There is something strange about this story and why it got to this level is beyond me.
I would guess that you have not been involved in the long struggle of home schooling parents for the past 25-30 years = or you would 'guess' that the 'strange' part comes from the nanny state and it's henchmen, activist judges?
Or are you a member of "The Elite" - i.e., those in the system who 'know better' than parents and 'ordinary' citizens how to school and how to raise their children.
(You might also want to research this story and get the whole scoop before you suspicion that the parent must be the one in error?)
“There is something strange about this story and why it got to this level is beyond me.”
It seems strange because you aren’t familiar with the case.
The parents were in court because of a matter with their older son, he had gotten in some trouble totally separate from school truancy.
While in court, someone from the court produced paperwork that the school had filed showing that the parents did not have their children in school and had not submitted paperwork. Apparently the school filed the paperwork with the court but did not notify the parents of the filing. So when they went to court they were surprised at this extra issue they had to deal with.
The judge, who made remarks saying that no one should ever be homeschooling their children, said that she was in violation and must enroll her children. She protested that she had sent the paperwork this year as she had every year in the past but she didn’t have a receipt of delivery.
The judge said he didn’t care about any of that, he said that she had to enroll her children or Child Services would come and take them from her.
So, the only strange thing going on here is that the judge was being totally unreasonable because he wanted to impose his own will in this situation.
These were papers for the previous school year. Someone was looking to escalate this and it wasn’t the mom.