Posted on 03/12/2009 10:40:35 AM PDT by Between the Lines
RALEIGH, NC -- Venessa Mills is fighting a legal battle for the heart and soul of homeschooling in North Carolina. As reported on World Net Daily, on Friday, March 6, Judge Ned W. Mangum stripped her of the right to homeschool, and ordered her three children to enter public school.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91397
Mills was forced to defend her right to homeschool during divorce proceedings brought on by her husband's unfaithfulness. Mr. Mills admitted, under oath, to repeatedly committing adultery. Even with abundant evidence showing the Mills children are well adjusted and well educated, Judge Mangum ruled overwhelmingly against Mrs. Mills on every point. He stated the children would do better in public school despite the fact that they are currently at or beyond their grade level. Evidence showed two children tested several grades ahead.
When issuing his verdict Judge Mangum stated his decision was not ideologically or religiously motivated. However, he told Mrs. Mills public school will "challenge the ideas you've taught them."
What has emerged is a picture of a clearly liberal judge imposing his beliefs and striking down traditional values. Mangum, a Democrat appointee, disregarded the facts of the case in favor of his own agenda. Such anti-conservative prejudice is increasingly legislated from the bench, and appears to be encouraged by the Democratic Obama administration.
Robyn Williams, friend and homeschool mother of four was present at the proceeding. "I have never seen such injustice and such a direct attack against homeschooling," said Williams. "This judge clearly took personal issue with Venessa's stance on education and faith, even though her children are doing great. If her right to homeschool can be taken away so easily, what will this mean for homeschoolers state wide, or even nationally?"
On March 24th lawmakers in North Carolina will be reminded of the sheer numbers of homeschoolers in their state. As students and their parents descend on the capitol, organizers of the Capital Fest 2009 field trip will show they have a voice in North Carolina legislation regarding education.
Williams is rallying homeschoolers from across the nation to fight back to defend their rights as Americans to educate their children. She feels the judge has been given a free hand to impose his personal opinions and needs to reexamine his decisions. Please subscribe to Robyn's blog and join the fight for protecting everyone's homeschool rights (www.HSinjustice.com).
For more information or to schedule an interview contact Adam Cothes at acothes.publicity@gmail.com or call 253-797-6194.
The public is being encouraged to take these action steps:
1. Forward this message to every person on your contact list, and all those interested in protecting basic American rights. After the right to educate is gone, property and other basic rights will follow.
2. Read the blog at www.HSinjustice.com.
3. Contact three officials to express your outrage at Venessa Mills' right to homeschool being taken away and the prejudicial orders of this judge. Three or four short emails or phone calls could be the difference for these kids, and many more like them.
You can reference the case number: #08CVD17753
Judge's Supervisor
Judicial Standards Commission P.O. Box 1122 Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 919-831-3630
State Legislators
NC Senate--Neal Hunt (R) 919-733-5850 Neal.Hunt@ncleg.net
NC House--Ty Harrell (D) 919-733-5602 Ty.Harrell@ncleg.net
North Carolina Governor
Governor Bev Perdue Office of the Governor 20301 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-0301 Phone: (919)733-4240
Stupid and/or corrupt judges are one of our biggest problems in this country right now.
In case you didn’t know about this...
This is maddening
There is surely more to this story than meets the eye...
This is just part of the judge’s stupid rulling. Go to the blog to read more. www.HSinjustice.com
And who will “challenge the ideas the public school indoctrinates them with.”
DISGUSTING!!!
“Evidence showed two children tested several grades ahead”.
...this is what the problem is. Can’t have these kids “ahead” of anyone else for God’s sake! That would be labeled as “success”, “independant” and “prosperous”. All are unacceptible in the libs world.
The judge should be impeached.
I have serious concerns about the way my sister homeschools her son (he’s usually on his own!) Thats why I’m always a bit suspicious of homeschooling... But this lady seems to be doing a great job. Leave it to a liberal judge to drag these kids into a public school system to be indoctrinated.
It’d be good to see this story linked on drudge.
Mills was forced to defend her right to homeschool during divorce proceedings brought on by her husband’s unfaithfulness.
Adultery is the nation’s biggest problem. The husband(in this case)should be entitled to the clothes on his back. There needs to be serious consequences in these cases.
With at least four years of Obama judicial nominees, it’s only going to get worse.
NC ... judge Mangum ... any relation to Crystal Gayle Mangum?
I have serious concerns about the way my sister homeschools her son (he’s usually on his own!)
That’s the point, raising children who are capable of learning on their own. Hey, it worked for Ben Franklin.
The missing information is couple is divorced. Divorce was due to Father committing adultery. Mother is Conservative Christian, Father is not. Father suddenly (after four years) wants kids to go to public school because he doesn’t want the children taught in Christianity. Since the two cannot agree, it goes to the courts. Courts say public school. I think Father was also going after custody on same basis.
That’s what I think remember from pre-court articles about this case over the last few months.
Quotes to this effect abound throughout history:
It is better to be uneducated than miseducated.
if she cannot homeschool, send them to a private school instead =o)
Well, sure ... but of course you know that having the full facts of a case takes all the fun out of a full-steam ahead rant.
Start a movement to de throne the judge. Make some noise like Sharpton and co. and don’t stop.
This article is a definite case of "Consider the source."
What the author of this piece fails to tell you is that he (Adam Cothe) is a spokesman for the mother in this case.
He can be expected to tell only one side of the story ... and he has. Mr. Cothe is clearly not interested in telling you the other side of the story.
I keep thinking of the phrase
“Henry Bowman, pick up the white phone...”
I just can’t place it, though.
Judge Ned W. Mangum should begin paying support for these children immediately. After all, he’s assuming parental rights over them...
I was wondering the same thing.
This judge would be at home in Germany. Homeschooling is strictly prohibited there via a law enacted by Der Feuher.
Government’s afraid that the mom won’t give her kids leftist propaganda.
“There needs to be serious consequences in these cases.”
He won every thing he requested.
Stupid is as stupid judge.
No, that isn’t the point of homeschooling. Children need guidance. He’s not even a teen yet. He needs help understanding concepts in math, his belief systems in religion, grammar points of English, etc. Just because one is being homeschooled doesn’t necessarily make it a quality education.
da-dah-da-daaaaah....Mindcrime....
Ultimately the resonsibility to educate falls to the parent. If they chose not to educate their son then that is their choice. The government should have no say in it. What about all the public school kids that arent getting an education at school?
If he (your nephew) wants to learn he can do it on his own. I overcame the inadequacy of my public school education. He can do the same for his homeschool education.
Yeah and let the husband pay for it!
Obviously homeschooling was good enough for the dad for the FOUR years he was married to her. Why is it all of a sudden unacceptable?
No clue. Perhaps the mother is a fruit loop. Perhaps the judge really is a bad guy. Almost certainly, there is a lot more to this story than Mr. Adam Cothe chose to tell you.
My point is simply that the author of this piece has a vested interest in presenting the mother's side -- he is, after all, "a spokesman" for her. He cannot be trusted to give you a straight story.
I don’t know what your shcool was like, but in mine we had way more self directed learning than teacher talking time.
I saw it this morning. There’s a lot of corruption and incompetence in the courts in NC.
Even in counties that aren’t controlled by Democrats, such as mine, the good ol’ boys are pretty much running the place for their own benefit. (The judge in this case is one of the Raleigh Mafia, so the author’s attempt to blame the Obama Administration for him doesn’t fly.) And the school systems and especially “social-welfare” agencies are heavily liberal, mainly I think because of the kind of people who go into that work in the first place. (School adminstrations are after the money, too, of course.)
This present case has a lot more going on than homeschooling, so I hesitate to comment. HSLDA isn’t mentioning it at this point on their site or in state-level communications.
Same thing here also.
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If I were her, I would get passports, make plans and move out of the US.
However, there are parents of public schoolers who do not have a hands-on approach to their children's education either which is evidenced by how poorly the students of our nation's educational system often perform compared to the rest of the world.
I might add the “socialization” and “opposing views” arguments which the liberal judge (as you correctly stated) brought up border on absurdity.
Most homeschoolers can interact with adults just as easily as they do with other kids and can, unlike Caroline Kennedy, do so without using the word “like” or the phrase “you know” more than once or twice in a conversation.
Their socialization is with people of varying ages rather than being couped up in a class room all day with kids their own age with the same emotional and maturity levels, and have to fight to survive the “law of the jungle” that often takes place in public school settings.
Also many homeschooling parents willing teach hot topic issues just so their children will know the opposing viewpoints. Most homeschooling kids watch TV, go to movies, and are on the internet, so they are constantly exposed to opposing viewpoints any way.
I have homeschooled for the past 10 years, and we are ending our homeschooling journey in May when my daughter graduates. Currently, she is a dual credit student at a local junior college and is carrying a 4.0. This is in addition to completing a few remaining courses at home.
Since I don't know how your sister runs her homeschooling efforts, I can't speak to what you have observed.
However, I can truthfully say the homeschooling families I have interacted with over the past 10 years take their task of homeschooling very seriously because they know their children's future depends on how well they, the parents, do their job. The parents also know the public sector will judge all homeschooling efforts by their own students’ failures or successes.
This mother is doing a great job with the kids, so lets reverse everything that she did just to indoctrinate the kiddies. Disgusting.
And the judge justifies this how? The husband cheated so I am going to punish the children by forcing them into a sub-par education system run by liberal brainwashed idiots.
I don't home-school my kids, but I might just have to in the future rather than have their heads filled to the brim with absolute crap.
Un freakin believable!
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