The modern home school movement began in the 1980s as evangelical Christians began to react to the culture and the public schools, which promoted the culture through politically correct curriculum and teachers and students who reinforced what many of these parents saw as direct attacks on the biblical and traditional values they were trying to instill in their children. Many of us were simply trying to protect our children and trying to follow what we believe is our biblical responsibility to raise our children in the “nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
Be Prepared for CPS
December 8, 2011 By
Last week I had a good meeting with the interim commissioner of the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) and the head of Children’s Protective Services (CPS). It was my first time to meet these individuals since they had assumed their positions. What prompted this meeting was a problem that a THSC member had with CPS. This member had been investigated twice in the previous six months regarding anonymous allegations of abuse.
Lessons from a Day of Infamy
December 7, 2011 By
President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it a day that would live in infamy. December 7, 1941, was the day that would, as some survivors recall, change America forever. In the midst of negotiations with Japan to avoid the United States’ entry into World War II, Japan attacked an unsuspecting navy lying at rest in Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor.
Our Children Are Too Precious And Our Freedom Too Dear
December 7, 2011 By
Sometimes home schoolers tell me that they are too busy to be involved in politics or that they think THSC is too political. It is a sign of the times that home school families in Texas have so much freedom that they can ignore the process by which we choose our government.
Fair and Impartial Includes Character
December 6, 2011 By
In October a video was posted online by a young woman who had evidently been abused by her father for years. What made the video “go viral” was the fact that it was seven or eight minutes of verbal profanity and physical beating with a belt by a sitting Texas judge. While the judge has been suspended, with pay, by the Texas Supreme Court, he will not be prosecuted, since the statute of limitations has passed. Even though calls for his resignation have been many and passionate, he does not seem inclined to do so.
Judicial Abuse Continues in Ft. Worth
October 11, 2011 By
Not surprisingly, the hearing scheduled for yesterday in the 231st District Court in Tarrant County was another disappointment and example of judges who lack impartiality and have a low view of parental rights. The hearing was scheduled to address the issue of requiring the grandparents to pay attorney fees incurred by the father in the three-year legal battle to regain custody of his daughter. For the second time this year, the judge refused to allow the hearing to go forward on an issue likely to favor the parent citing the basis that the grandparents’ attorney had raised additional issues that were not already before the court.
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Back In Court
October 10, 2011 By
The Tarrant County father who regained custody of his daughter in a jury trial last August will be back in the same court today to ask the same judge to require his daughter’s grandparents to pay his legal fees. The Texas Family Code allows the judge to require the grandparents to pay the legal fees since the jury ruled against them.
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The High Price of Justice
October 4, 2011 By
Next week attorneys for the father whom THSC has been helping for more than a year will be back in the 23lst District Court in Tarrant County. This time, however, the hearing will not be about whether or not this fit father will be able to get his daughter back after three years of “temporary” orders by the judge of this same court. That issue was settled in August after a jury trial.
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TASB on Homeschooling
October 3, 2011 By
Last week I traveled to Austin to attend the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) and the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) annual conference. I was invited to attend a specific presentation by a committee from Leadership TASB, a leadership training program for local public school board members. This committee had been meeting for a year, tasked with developing a presentation on home schooling in Texas. [Read more...]
Prosecutorial Abuse
October 3, 2011 By
As I review the ongoing battle against grandparents that many fit parents across Texas are waging, fighting to keep their children and to make decisions for them, it is abundantly clear that many of the problems relate to the judges involved in these cases. This is why THSC PAC has become more and more involved in the judicial election process. Very often our parental rights depend on a fair and impartial judge, and as we have seen in recent cases, some judges are anything but fair and impartial. [Read more...]
