tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post9022742040975079509..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Quick Roundup 204Gus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-11561971537226198072007-06-15T11:44:00.000-06:002007-06-15T11:44:00.000-06:00I believe you! I didn't get around to the abstract...I believe you! I didn't get around to the abstract yesterday until after I'd posted and even after that quote, its frank statement of purpose took me aback: <BR/><BR/>"The paper relies on federal state action doctrine and state constitution education clauses to argue that states must -- not may or should -- regulate homeschooling to ensure that parents provide their children with a basic minimum education and check rampant forms of sexism."<BR/><BR/>Ugh! There HAVE to be more errors to get to that point. Should I get the time to write more in-depth on education, I will almost certainly end up perusing that thing, so thank you again for bringing it up.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-15486889514721680502007-06-15T11:37:00.000-06:002007-06-15T11:37:00.000-06:00If you have the stomach to wade through the rest o...If you have the stomach to wade through the rest of that paper, you will discover even more heinous errors. It's simply terrible. I am also shocked and dismayed that something like this would be produced by a professor of law. If this is what lawyers these days are learning about and producing, then....shudder. Evidently that little class about the Constitution is an elective now.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for pointing me to <I>The Underground Grammarian</I>. Really appeals to the English major in me. Hope to spend a lot of time there!<BR/><BR/>Must go back to rearing my government property now... :o)Jenn Caseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07849654785544313839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-73556392794366462422007-06-14T10:44:00.000-06:002007-06-14T10:44:00.000-06:00It is through such convoluted reasoning and massiv...It is through such convoluted reasoning and massive numbers of bad precedents along the way that we finally see someone arguing, explicitly, for the government to act for precisely the <B>opposite</B> of its proper purpose!<BR/><BR/>Sickeningly, the dangerousness of it would hardly register with the vast majority of adults, if they could read the sentence in the first place!Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-55135258950226572152007-06-14T10:35:00.000-06:002007-06-14T10:35:00.000-06:00And lemme tell ya what, that's a nasty bit of lega...And lemme tell ya what, that's a nasty bit of legal misreasoning. "States delegate power of children's basic education to parents, and the delegation itself is necessarily subject to constitutional constraints." Uh huh. So now try to combine that with these two nowadays largely gutted little items: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people" and "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." The mind reels. One is tempted to dig into the legal record behind this mess of pottage, but one is then dismayed at the thought of what one will find squirming there. Urf.Adrian Hesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13394227341130065130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-820090430589474082007-06-14T10:24:00.000-06:002007-06-14T10:24:00.000-06:00Indeed.BTW, thank you for the link to The Undergro...Indeed.<BR/><BR/>BTW, thank you for the link to <I>The Underground Grammarian</I> -- although my excitement at seeing it online is tempered by my learning that Richard Mitchell died some time ago.<BR/><BR/>I have several of his books, including that one.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-12760718878657470372007-06-14T10:10:00.000-06:002007-06-14T10:10:00.000-06:00Yo, Gus, you write: "You, the parent, have no rig...Yo, Gus, you write: "You, the parent, have no rights because you are simply keeping an eye on government property. I find it ominous that someone feels comfortable saying such a thing openly." Said minor-level slave-driver is only repeating what was taught by such professors of education as William H. Seawell, who stated back in 1981 (at a school opening in Fort Defiance, VA, of all ironies!): "Each child belongs to the state." Decent commentary can be found in the archives of <A HREF="http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/" REL="nofollow"><I>The Underground Grammarian</I></A> for Volume 7, No. 2, "The Children of the State." It's things like this that remind me that Mencken's proposal that we burn all the schoolhouses and shoot all the teachers won't do a damned bit of good in the long run if we don't dismantle our septically corrupt tyrant- and slave-molding "progressive" education establishment into the bargain.Adrian Hesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13394227341130065130noreply@blogger.com