[Download] "State V. Edgington" by New Mexico Court of Appeals # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State V. Edgington
- Author : New Mexico Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 15, 1983
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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Defendants were charged with violation of the attendance law when public school officials became aware that defendants' two children, Jason 11, and Laura 9, were not enrolled in a public school. The children were being taught at home pursuant to courses made available through the Christian Liberty Academy, an organization headquartered in Illinois. Both defendants directed the home instruction, although Mrs. Edgington conducted most of the studies. Neither parent held a current teaching certificate, but Mrs. Edgington had at one time been certified. At the evidentiary hearing the district court used a bifurcated analysis, inquiring first whether defendants were providing a proper program of instruction, and second whether defendants could constitutionally be prevented from providing home instruction. On the first question the court found that defendants were providing a "supervised program of instruction" as contemplated by the definition of "school" provided in § 22-1-2 S, N.M.S.A. 1978 (1981 Repl. Pamph.).