Delicious Wingnut Outrage: Team Obama wins fight to have Christian home-school family deported

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106. I do. I have seen religious home schooling fail many times.

I have seen the result of some of the religious home schooling. Sometimes it works and sometimes it is a wreck.
In cali, (I know our system here) the kids are tested to make sure that the home schooling is being taught to grade level, that they know what they are supposed to know for their grade.
When the home school thing fails the children are forced back into the public schools.
2 things instantly happen. The overseeing organization of the home schoolers dumps these kids off of their books like they never existed. They are not a failure because they no longer exist.
At the same time these kids are now in public school, far behind grade level, and now part of the failing numbers for that school as if that school had taught them from day one.
The home schoolers always like to tell you about how their rate of success is so great. We could all be great at anything we do if we could give all of our failures to someone else and duck any and all responsibility for it.
Reality for these children is that they end up in special ed classes, because nobody knows what to do with them, where they will continue to fail and most of them will never graduate.
I am not a fan of home schooling. To be blunt about it I would like to see all politics and religion out of the classroom. If you decide to teach your kids at home for religious reasons and do not get the job done then you should be fined to pay for the extra teachers and tutors it takes to get your kid back to grade level.