Historical Christian has the scoop ...

But now, parents have to be on guard again. Seems some people want to force kids into the public school system despite having a demonstrably great homeschooling experience - and why? Because they don't like the parent's religion, and want to expose the kids to the very ideas that their parents are trying to protect them from.

Here's the part that really gets me:

The guardian ad litem involved in the case concluded, according to the court order, that the girl “appeared to reflect her mother’s rigidity on questions of faith” and that the girl’s interests “would be best served by exposure to a public school setting” and “different points of view at a time when she must begin to critically evaluate multiple systems of belief...in order to select, as a young adult, which of those systems will best suit her own needs.”

The girl is 10 years old. Since when are 10-year-olds asked to "critically evaluate multiple systems of belief"? Note the wording that the girl reflects the mother's "ridigity." In other words, to have a clear belief system is to be considered "rigid," and deserving of having your child taken out of your control and brainwashed by someone else. Frankly, I think it's the "guardian" that is rigid - bigoted, actually, against certain aspects of the girl's religion that he disagrees with.

All that said, I want to point out that there is a divorce in play here. Furthermore, the wants of the other parent likely have something to do with WHY they are pitting public schooling vs. homeschooling. It doesn't seem to me that this is a case where a child from an in-tact family is being randomly assaulted by the state for being "too rigid".

I STILL have problems with the reasoning cited here. I have said before, by discouraging the western tradition in favor of diversity, we will LOSE our western tradition. Authentic diversity requires the practice of our OWN faith and the acceptance of our OWN past before we can truly appreciate the legitimate differences of others.