I don’t understand why the judge was ruling on anything at all. What action was before him and who brought it?
In a divorce proceeding the father is against homeschooling.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91397
The judge, when contacted by WND, explained his goal in ordering the children to register and attend a public school was to make sure they have a “more well-rounded education.”
“I thought Ms. Mills had done a good job [in homeschooling],” he said. “It was great for them to have that access, and [I had] no problems with homeschooling. I said public schooling would be a good complement.”
The judge said the husband has not been supportive of his wife’s homeschooling, and “it accomplished its purposes. It now was appropriate to have them back in public school.”
Mangum said he made the determination on his guiding principle, “What’s in the best interest of the minor children,” and conceded it was putting his judgment in place of the mother’s.
And he said that while he expressed his opinion from the bench in the court hearing, the final written order had not yet been signed.
However, the practice of a judge replacing a parent’s judgment with his own regarding homeschooling was argued recently when a court panel in California ruled that a family would no longer be allowed to homeschool their own children.
It seems the dad is driving this. The judge is also the judge handling the parent’s divorce.
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From what I recall it’s a divorce and one partner is now opposed to home schooling. No doubt because it limits time with the children.
“What action was before him and who brought it?”
It’s a messy divorce caused by adultery (man’s) and the man doesn’t want to have to pay for the expense of homeschooling any longer.