Here is a report from the Flathead Beacon in Kalispell Montana about the newly formed Montana Conservative Alliance’s litmus test. It contains an alarming mention of homeschooling:
No. 8 says: “Parents are not always responsible, which is why some regulations of home schooling is necessary, and child health programs like CHIP [the Children Health Insurance Program] are a good idea.”
I will have to sharpen my pencil for this “belief statement” because I have no idea how homeschooling and CHIP are related under the umbrella of responsible parenting.
Homeschooling has seen its share of ‘litmus test politics’. I could be proven wrong in this particular situation, but, history says if we dig to the core of this call for regulations we would find that those ‘other’ homeschoolers are the ones who need regulating.
Read the entire piece here.
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If one follows this attitude through, it would logically follow that no parent should be allowed by the government to take a newborn home from the hospital, because a few parents are not good parents. This attitude also advocates punishing all (by removing rights), for the sins of a few. This is definitely not a conservative position.
Also, I would have to question the qualifications of any government agency or official to be better at parenting, given the dismal record of the various Departments of Human Services (whatever different names they go by from state to state), around the country.