Homeschoolers, you need to read this.
Last week I posted the true story behind the media lies
about the El Paso Independent School District’s attack on the McIntyre
homeschool family. Now I
realize why they were doing so, and the legal implications are actually quite
frightening. What it boils down to is an attempt by the left to get courts to
allow the school district officials to have immunity from lawsuits when they
break the law harassing and persecuting homeschoolers. If this can be achieved
in Texas, it could set a precedent for this type of harassment nationwide.
The
case was so badly distorted by the media that there had to be some ulterior
motive. There had to be some reason why national media outlets were taking a
local case involving a public school district, spinning an outright lie about
it, suppressing 80 percent of the real story, and running with it. After
reading all of the court briefs and decisions, and doing a little background
research, I have realized that reason.
As I said last time, the school district’s defense
essentially hinges upon a claim that the truant officer, as a government
official, should have “qualified immunity” from lawsuits. I noted
that fact thinking it was an almost laughably pitiful defense, and I noted it
only in passing. I should have stopped to think: duh! This is just the kind of
ultra-hubris we should expect from leftist, activist, and/or statist public
officials. They really do believe this privilege should apply to them whatever
they may do. They really
do believe they should be immune from prosecution even when breaking
the law in the name of the law, and persecuting those they hate (home schools)
in the name of protecting the children. They really, seriously want this
power, and they want to use it to stamp out their ideological rivals.
