A court case involving a Texas Christian homeschool family has made
national news because the parents allegedly have refused to educate their
children in view of an imminent “rapture.” Liberal activist news outlets across
the country have joined in universal chorus condemning lax homeschooling
regulations and suggesting the pending Texas Supreme Court case will lead to a
crackdown on homeschooling throughout the nation.
There’s only one problem. It’s all lies.
Every bit of it…………
Breitbart
reports how several
media outlets carried similar spin, all universally suggesting the family was
in the wrong and, in fact, shaming them:
Texas
liberal news outlets blasted religious
liberty as on a “collision course” with homeschool.
National headlines lamented if
homeschoolers learned anything at all. The Washington Post pondered where did
the line between religious liberty and parental rights to educate
one’s own children stop. CBS News, like many news organizations, regurgitated the Associated
Press’ narrative which scrutinized if Texas homeschoolers even have
to learn. The Daily Beast attacked Laura
McIntyre as the “Kim Davis” of homeschooling. It went on and on claiming that
hope was around the corner — because the McIntyre case could
change homeschooling laws for the state’s approximately 300,000 home
educated students.
But
again, it’s all lies. Here are the facts that none of these outlets relates
(I’ve only seen one point partially touched in passing by one story so far):
First,
all charges against the family were dropped in 2007. There is
no case against them. Nothing. For eight years now.
Second,
the case in the Texas Supreme Court is of the parents suing the El Paso
school district for harassment, not the other way around.
The
family originally filed a civil suit, and won. The district appealed, and won
the appeal. Now the family has appealed to the state’s Supreme Court. Oral
arguments began last week.
