HSLDA gets family out of hot water.Texas is famous for its barbecue barbecue [West Indian or South American], in the United States, traditionally an open-air gathering, political or social, in which meats are roasted whole over a pit of embers and food and drink are liberally enjoyed. , but the Rivera family didn't enjoy being grilled for an hour in an El Paso El Paso (ĕl pă`sō), city (1990 pop. 515,342), seat of El Paso co., extreme W Tex., on the Rio Grande opposite Juárez, Mex.; inc. 1873. courtroom, defending their right to home-school home·school or home-school v. home·schooled, home·school·ing, home·schools v.tr. To instruct (a pupil, for example) in an educational program outside of established schools, especially in the home. their daughter. They began home-schooling in 2001, after their daughter was beaten by bullies. Despite the school principal's recommendation that the Riveras home-school and the fact that they duly filed the paperwork required by Texas for starting a private school in the home," they were notified that their daughter was truant and that their presence was summarily demanded in court, with only two days' notice. They immediately contacted the HSLDA HSLDA Home School Legal Defense Association (US) HSLDA Home School Legal Defence Association (Canada) . Since there wasn't enough time for an attorney to fly to El Paso, HSLDA senior counsel Christopher Klicka prepared a letter to be read by the judge. In that letter, Klicka explained that in Texas, any private school operating in the home is a bona fide [Latin, In good faith.] Honest; genuine; actual; authentic; acting without the intention of defrauding. A bona fide purchaser is one who purchases property for a valuable consideration that is inducement for entering into a contract and without suspicion of being private school, provided that the parents meet certain curriculum requirements, which the Riveras met with ease. The judge, who admitted he didn't know Texas home-schooling law, read Klicka's letter aloud and asked the family some questions, such as "Who in their fight mind would home-school?" and "Isn't this child isolated?" Upon receiving convincing, articulate answers from Mrs. Rivera, the judge dismissed the case. |
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