A Texas
court ruled this month that parents who allegedly stopped homeschooling
their kids because they believed jesus christ was returning to Earth
were not exempt from state education regulations.
According to a
ruling last week by the Texas Eighth District Court of Appeals, Michael
McIntyre and Laura McIntyre removed their nine children from a private
school in 2004 to home-school them.
Michael McIntyre's twin
brother, Tracy, testified that the parents used empty space in a
motorcycle dealership that he co-owned as a classroom. But Tracy said
that he never saw the children reading books, using computers or doing
arithmetic. Instead, the children were seen playing instruments and
singing.
"Tracy overhead one of the McIntyre children tell a
cousin that they did not need to do schoolwork because they were going
to be raptured," the court document noted.
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