Story from the Alliance Defense Fund.
Excerpt:
The parents of the child divorced in 1999. The mother has home-schooled their daughter since first grade with curriculum that meets all state review standards. In addition to home schooling, the girl attends supplemental public school classes and has also been involved in a variety of extra-curricular sports activities.
In the process of renegotiating the terms of a parenting plan for the girl, 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 WND story is here, but I don’t like WND.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
I suggest doing some reading on what marital masters are and how this extra-constitutional role (they wield the power of a judge, essentially, but there is no call for the role in the state constitution) is extremely contentious within NH for obvious reasons. (They have also been charged with being arbiters of the status quo–that is, the typical anti-male role of the judiciary in family court proceedings that plagues the Western world–and, by all rights, shouldn’t actually exist at all.)
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I should also add that the reasoning behind their existence is that nothing would ever get done without them since the state is up to its neck in family court proceedings.
My take is that the judges reviewing the marital masters recommendations serve as little more than a rubber stamp due to the courts being so clogged with these cases, i.e. they likely barely read the recommendations and simply sign off on them to clear the backlog. (There is also the fact that the NH supreme court has affirmed the right of parents to home school their children in quite clear language, so if this isn’t reversed outright, it will likely be knocked down when it gets there.)
As it stands right now, this is yet more busy body meddling in the affairs of parents that have done literally nothing wrong (and, in fact, this young girl appears to be excelling academically as is typically the case with home schooled children) and it galls me that, in of all states, this is happening here.
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New Hampshire is probably the freest state in the union, although I like Alaska.
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Yes, and that’s what’s terrifying about it.
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Judge: Bailiff, what are the charges against the defendant?
Bailiff: Apostasy, your honor.
Judge: Defendant, how do you plead?
Child: Apostasy? Apostasy from what religion?
Judge: Against the official state religion of Pluralistic secularism! Don’t force me to add heresy to the charges as well! How do you plead?
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Ha! If only they saw themselves like that, but they haven’t a speck of humility. They have become the inquisitors that they denounced.
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Since you didn’t say what the other parent objected to that the mother was teaching her daughter – how do we know that the mother wasn’t teaching the daughter to hate men since her husband divorced her and now she hates men? You gave too little info to form any type of informed opinion.
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Two things, Jerry:
1. So what? That’s not the state’s business, is it? If it was, I’ll wait for you to start railing against nearly ever women’s studies professor in the country that has children.
2. You could, you know, actually follow the linked stories to get that information…
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I actually don’t think he reads the stories at all. It says right in the story that the home-schooled girl defended her views “too vigorously”. I.e. – she thought she was right, and that is only allowed for people on the left. For people on the right, you have to go to a re-education camp.
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about marriage.,Why am I even considering this when the left thinks nothing of trampling the rights of parents? Why bother?
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Not only does it state that in the story, WK, it states it in the court order!
Click to access KurowskiOrder.pdf
Read it, Jerry. Your questions are answered.
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This got some attention on the Michael Medved show, and the ADF is all over it.
Should be fun to see what happens on the appeal.
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