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Interesting article:

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=659638


Important point of article for many on this board:

Alliance Defense Fund-allied attorney John Anthony Simmons has filed a motion to reconsider. He says this ruling is dangerous to home schoolers because it will set a precedent for other cases.

"Every time you have a court order that uses a wrong standard or misapplies constitutional law, everyone's rights are eventually at stake," the attorney explains. "Because what happens with precedent is it gets expanded -- it gets cited in other cases."

Another reason that I "love" living in New Hampshire....

I can understand both sides in that this is a divorced couple who agreed on joint decision making with a court mediator and they are arguing between homeschool and public school.

But I do agree that religion shouldn't have had anything to do with a court case to determine education need. In that regard I think the court was wrong. Otherwise how do you decide between two arguing parents that agreed for the court to decide? I wouldn't want to be that judge.