When you consider some of the brainless actions of school administrations under the "zero tolerance" mentality, that may not be a bad idea for those who must use public schools. The most recent stupid case I have heard of was one where a ten year old girl who brought a steak knife to school for the express purpose of cutting a steak her mother packed for lunch was taken to the police station and suspended for ten days. In the current environment, it is safe to state that the public official is not your friend, and too often, civilians are subject to official oppression for minor infractions or even none at all.
What needs to change is the law. The idea of compelling any American to do anything is just wrong. There should not have to be any report to the state that you are homeschooling your children. Parents are to be responsible for their children not the state, and not the federal government.
I hope that the people of Utah will stand against this judge, and against the law that is clearly treading on individual rights. It does not matter if her son got in trouble, which I know nothing about one way or the other, it is still wrong for the judge to take her rights like that.
Every study that I have found home school vs. Public school, the children that are educated at home surpass public school kids by 4 grade levels. And the cost effectiveness.. yeah, we won’t go there.
The woman has now taken her children and has fled the state. I hope that she finds a state with a governor that will protect her from the compulsion laws.