So, the Hokey-Pokey really *is* what it's all about.

I had another topic for my first blog entry but that will have to wait since I just read about a case in New Hampshire where a judge ordered a homeschooled child into the government school.

Now, I am one of those atypical (these days) religious homeschoolers who feel that people should decide for their own families how to educate their children.  God's word is silent on the exact location of education, though not on the religious and moral upbringing.  If a family believes that their child can get a good education at their local public school or at a private school of their choice, and is willing to do the extra work to adequately train their child "in the way he should go," I cannot see where they are breaking any commandments.

However, this case highlights something that homeschoolers (both left and right) have argued for decades, namely, public school is not really about education, it's about indoctrination.  If the judge truly believed that the main purpose of learning was to grasp the ABCs and 123s, so-to-speak, this case wouldn't have gone anywhere.  He would have looked at the girl's scores, seen she was doing exceedingly well academically, maybe even given the mother a nice pat on the back, we'd never have heard of it, and I'd have been able to publish my other blog entry.  But that's not what happened.  Despite how well the child is doing she has been ordered into the government school system simply to be exposed to other ideas. 

Only one with his feet planted firmly in the sophistry of the public schools could be blind enough not to see this for what it is: forced re-education.