GOHMERT FACTORIES: Texas court rules against homeschoolers who expected rapture and stopped teaching

[doxydad]

A Texas court ruled this month that parents who allegedly stopped homeschooling their kids because they believed Jesus Christ was returning to Earth were not exempt from state education regulations.

According to a ruling last week by the Texas Eighth District Court of Appeals, Michael McIntyre and Laura McIntyre removed their nine children from a private school in 2004 to homeschool them.

Michael McIntyre’s twin brother, Tracy, testified that the parents used empty space in a motorcycle dealership that he co-owned as a classroom. But Tracy said that he never saw the children reading books, using computers or doing arithmetic. Instead, the children were seen playing instruments and singing.

“Tracy overhead one of the McIntyre children tell a cousin that they did not need to do schoolwork because they were going to be raptured,” the court document noted.

After Tracy confronted the parents about the curriculum, the school was later moved to a rental house.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/11/texas-court-rules-against-homeschoolers-who-expected-rapture-and-stopped-teaching-kids/

[gordianot]

1. Really excellent title.

Another way to achieve Gohmert status would be a good strong whack in head by a sledge hammer.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. When I taught in SC, my kids came in one day

all excited because the Rapture was happening THAT DAY. I told them we were still going to do the lessons because just maybe Gawd was gonna ask them a question about clouds before he'd let them in.
I also told them that if it did occur, I hoped either all of them went or I did. I was only half kidding.

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. I suppose if you truly believed what millions and millions of people say they believe - that would

kind of make sense.

[LisaLynne]

4. And yet I have a feeling ...

If I tried to get them to sign over all their property and give me all their money, they would not be so keen to do that. But hey, stop teaching the kids. That's ok.