RALEIGH -- Home-school groups and conservatives across the country are infuriated by a Wake County judge's declaration that he will make a North Raleigh mother stop teaching her children at home and send them to public schools.

As part of a continuing divorce case, Wake District Court Judge Ned Mangum said last Friday that it would be in the "best interests" of Venessa Mills' three children to go to public school this fall.

Mangum said at the hearing that while the children are "thriving," they need to be exposed to the "real world."

"It will do them a great benefit to be in the public schools, and they will challenge some of the ideas that you've taught them, and they could learn from that and make them stronger," Mangum told Mills at last week's court hearing.

Mills said Thursday that she will appeal the order, saying that her children, ages 12, 11 and 10, are doing well academically. She said two of her children are learning two grades above grade level and the other is at grade level.

"I couldn't believe how he overlooked all the facts to legislate from the bench," Mills said.

My head is about to explode!  What kind of insanity is this?  It is this judge's contention that the Mills children are missing something vitally important by being deprived of the public school experience.  Maybe he's referring to something like this that recently took place in a Washington D.C. school?

Woodson Academy teacher William Pow had just finished writing on the blackboard one January afternoon, he said, when he turned to face his algebra class and saw the textbook "Mathematics in Life" hurtling toward his head.

He ducked, he said, but it caught him in the neck and shoulder. His colleagues at Woodson have not been as lucky. English teacher Randy Brown said he was hit just above the left ear by a book thrown by a student last month. He was treated for a concussion and said he has since suffered from headaches and nausea.

"They think it's a game to hit people in the head," said Brown, who, like Pow, has not returned to school.

They say the 260-student ninth-grade academy, housed at Ronald H. Brown Middle School in Northeast Washington while a new Woodson High is under construction, is overcrowded and dangerous. Brown and Pow count five other teachers or administrators who they said have been attacked this academic year, including one who was pelted by textbooks and another pinned to a desktop and choked. Other teachers, Brown and Pow said, are routinely subjected to verbal threats of violence.

Now there's something I bet those poor Mills kids have never seen!  It's a wonder someone hasn't reported Mrs. Mills to social services.  Of course if it's a government's objective to control the general population you can't have parents educating their own children.  Public schools are much better equipped to produce sheep. . . And poorly educated sheep will follow you *anywhere*. 

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Sen. Joe Lieberman, who saw his longtime friend Sen. Chris Dodd politically desert him three years ago, won’t return the favor.