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Not The Onion!
http://winningdemocrats.com/texas-supreme-court-christian-kids-dont-need-an-education-if-theyre-going-to-be-raptured/
Yes, you heard that right. Your children dont need to learn if the Lord is returning to take you to heaven. It makes sense if youre a lunatic, but to those of us who have watched with giddy delight as people stood on their lawns on the day the rapture was supposed to happen only to have their dreams shattered, you realize that at some point that kind of idiocy should be forbidden to be passed down to their children.
Not the religious nonsense; youre welcome to teach them all the zealotry you desire. Theres always a chance that can be undone when they begin having independent thought. Refusing to educate them, however, isnt just a travesty, its neglect. A lower court ruled in favor of a couple whose family turned them in for just that when they argued that being horrible parents was protected under the 14th amendment. The high court remanded the case to that court because its constitutional questions werent educational policy matters, whatever that means. They didnt rule on the constitutionality of the case at all.
We can only assume that it means that the state of Texas is stacked with dimwits to the highest level. They care about nothing but keeping Republicans in control. In order to do that, you have to ensure a base of ignorant, uneducated people who can be trained to punch a ballot based on pure hate for the poor even if they ARE poor minorities, LGBTs and anyone who isnt a white-Jesus fearing Christian. Add a little fear of terrorists crossing the border with grenade launchers and you have a massive electoral stash willing to put corruption in power until the end of time.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)(Shhh, he's imaginary, but don't spoil it for them)
Dump a generation of idiots into society that have no marketable skills aside from blind devotion to fairy tales.
Why wait for something that might not happen anytime soon (wink), go ahead and self rapture and help the rest of us out with rush hour traffic, long lines at Disney World, and other overcrowding issues.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Actually, for most of America religion has nothing to do with the big threat. Intense dislike by some extremely wealthy ultraconservatives/neoliberals/libertarians/Bircher-type fascists for "big government" regulations and paying taxes to educate other people's children has everything to do with it. They've made a whole philosophy out of it -- personal freedom for them and for the parents.
This ruling is hopefully a major wake-up call for what's really happening in the background. If the right gets control of the Supreme Court, they intend to make compulsory education unconstitutional. That will be followed by campaigns to eliminate local, state, and federal taxes and funding for public schools. Religion and extremist conspiracy theorists are just very useful tools to help it along.
Question: Just who have been packing America's courts at all levels with as many Texas Supreme Court-type conservatives as possible for decades?
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)I'm now in favor of Texit.
Let them become the newest third-world country. A theocracy they crave (pseudo-Xtian, sharia law-driven caliphate).
Just give us time to withdraw ALL federal assets -- including and especially the hardware (ships, planes, technology and other equipment) from defense department and VA facilities and installations. NASA's Johnson Space Center: dismantled. Let them keep -- and maintain at considerable expense -- roads, buildings and other non-movable assets.
Texans want a wall built? Fine by me. They pay for a 21st Century version of the Berlin Wall from the Louisiana gulf coast up to Oklahoma, westward to New Mexico, then south to El Paso.
Oh, and no foreign aid. Let them fund their own disaster relief when the next major hurricane devastates their communities in harm's way. Or for that matter, the tornadoes, floods, droughts, wildfires, pestilence, famine or other versions of their god's wrath they seem to relish.
Bye, Felicia!
keithbvadu2
(36,778 posts)They certainly would not want to be 'takers'.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)If only that were possible.
However, this is wishful thinking, and -- unlike the Repukes -- we must deal wth reality.
Iggo
(47,550 posts)Make 'em borrow money on the way out.
That way we can be sure they'd never come back...lol.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)Ilsa
(61,694 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Unless these families are very rich and can set up a large trust funds then their children needs to know how to read and do math.
FBaggins
(26,730 posts)... but also not remotely what the court said.
procon
(15,805 posts)Taxpayers, and not just Texas taxpayers!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This is just pure insanity.
struggle4progress
(118,280 posts)Will Weissert, Associated Press Updated 12:23 pm, Friday, June 24, 2016
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) The Texas Supreme Court .. Friday .. failed to answer larger constitutional questions about whether home-schooled students must be properly educated.
The 6-3 decision by the all-Republican court on technical grounds means nothing was decided regarding a showdown between religious liberties and educational requirements in America's largest conservative state, though it will live on in lower Texas courts.
Texas doesn't require parents who home-school their children to register with state authorities. While families must meet "basic educational goals" in reading, spelling, grammar, mathematics and citizenship, they don't have to give standardized testing or otherwise prove student progress is made ...
The high court found that 14th Amendment claims were not a question for Texas' educational code ...
http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/Texas-Supreme-Court-sidesteps-key-home-school-8323191.php
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)The bill of rights works for everyone.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)FBaggins
(26,730 posts)The word "rapture" wasn't even part of the decision - nor was it part of the appellate court's decision (other than to state that it's what a witness claimed to have heard). (http://caselaw.findlaw.com/tx-court-of-appeals/1674900.html)
The case really has nothing to do with whether or not the family was educating their children (or, if they weren't, whether their religious liberties permitted it). It's actually about whether the family can sue the district for violating their Constitutional rights before the administrative review process gave the district the opportunity to resolve the claims. The legal principle is called "exhaustion" (i.e., that they must "exhaust" all possible administrative remedies for their problem before suing).
But how many papers would that sell?
packman
(16,296 posts)Unbelievable, I'm gobsmacked and picking myself off the floor. Future Republicans in the making. Please, please Texas leave the union.
KT2000
(20,576 posts)Neglect
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Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)and the private sector?
Initech
(100,065 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Well for us regular folks it is a moment. But to the people who run Texas they know an uneducated voter is a vote for the GOP.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,999 posts)Night Watchman
(743 posts)Otherwise, I'm for an Expulsion Vote by the sane states.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)I may be fine giving Texas back to Mexico.
Once again....I used to be puzzled about how the Dark Ages came about, no longer, Texas seems to want to lead the way to Dark Ages 2.
Orrex
(63,203 posts)If good ol' Jesus is going to Rapture us up anyway.
dembotoz
(16,799 posts)we homeschooled for a year and went to a big home school conference
in all truth and honesty....you really do not have to do anything now....
crazy fucks are crazy fucks
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 27, 2016, 03:07 PM - Edit history (1)
Kids raised to believe fairy tales and lacking the skill sets to survive in the 21st century. Child Neglect!