Texas Governor Encourages Homeschooling

Rick Perry, the Governor of Texas, recently made a speech praising and encouraging homeschooling.

It's a great speech for homeschoolers and I would highly recommend watching it in its entirety. Some of his statements are especially worth highlighting:

For more and more students every day, the best educational option is a classroom in the home.

Every child is entitled to a public education, but public education is not entitled to every child.

Whatever decision is made on the location and style of a child’s education, I believe the responsibility and freedom of that choice resides with a child’s parent.

For those who choose to teach their children at home, I believe government regulation should stop at the front door.

Parental involvement is essential to every child’s success, and it’s hard to imagine a more involved parent than one who makes the sacrifices required to teach their child at home.

It is sad that, even with such obvious support for homeschooling throughout the United States, a judge in North Carolina can rip three children out of homeschool and force them into public school. Despite finding that their mother - Venessa Mills - is a "fit parent," a "good mother," and has done a "good job" in homeschooling them, Judge Ned Mangum decided that the children's beliefs needed to be "challenged" by sending them to public school for better "socialization."

Shamefully, the Governor of North Carolina and the judicial system have done nothing to stop the outrageous prejudice and injustice of Judge Mangum and the massive cover up that followed - despite receiving hundreds of protests from concerned citizens from all over the country.

Texas Governor Rick Perry is also supporting a bill that reaffirms states' rights and "the spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment." Every state needs to clean up its laws to stop the kind of injustices that have been inflicted on Venessa Mills and her children, and on many other people in similar situations who have shared their stories on this blog.

You can still take action to support Venessa Mills' homeschool rights, her Consitutional right to freedom of religion, and her Constitutional right to due process. The law should protect people from harassment, slander, and false accusations - not be complicit in their perpetration.

And you can take action in other ways to demand legislative changes in our laws to prevent the distress and misery so many people are experiencing under unjust judgments and torturous legal procedures.