Texas Court to Decide If Gov't Can Regulate Homeschool Curriculum

In 2004, Michael and Laura McIntyre began homeschooling their children in an available office at the El Paso motorcycle dealership that the couple ran with other relatives. A family business dispute erupted into a multimillion dollar lawsuit, a teenaged daughter who ran away and wanted to go to public school, and Michael McIntyre’s brother’s allegations the children learned nothing because they were waiting to be to be taken to Heaven or “raptured” during the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. An anonymous phone call led to El Paso ISD filing truancy charges against the family, which were dropped in 2007. Along the way, discredited family members were found guilty of malicious actions against the McIntyres.

Texas Homeschool Laws Trashed by Regulation Crusading Mainstream Media

Something that was repeated again and again (without citing the source) by many news outlets and bloggers was that the parents were not educating their kids because the end of the world was nigh.

….for not educating your children (no matter how you choose to school them) is that they’ll have to live with you until they’re 40 because they can’t get a decent job. I can understand the state requiring basic literacy among homeschoolers for that reason, and because of welfare expenses, although it perplexes me why they don’t…ahem…lay down the law a little more harshly on other schooling options that yield a lot of illiterate and non-functional graduates.