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UN treaty used to threaten homeschool families in Botswana

By Alliance Alert

LifeSiteNews: "This week the fate of four homeschooling families will be decided in Botswana, reports the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA). The families, adherents to the Seventh Day Adventist Church, have been ordered by a judge to send their children to public school. Despite the judge?s ruling indicating that the children were cared for and that the parents took steps to provide for the education of their children, the court found that they still need to go to public school because Botswana has acceded to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 08, 2010 (boomark / email).