Supreme Court to rule on legality of strip-searching 13 year olds for ibuprofen....

[Tekneek]

Originally Posted by billethius

Well ... that and the "quality" of the education that people get in the US.

I did not mean to suggest it was the first good reason, just another good reason.

[flere-imsaho]

Originally Posted by albionmoonlight

Because of his politics, J. Thomas tends to get dismissed pretty easily by most liberals and moderates and just a fringe nutjob. But that does him a great disservice. His writing demands to be engaged, not dismissed. One can still disagree with it (like the other 8 did in this case), but one cannot just shrug it off.

Actually, I tend to disagree. Just because Thomas views the law at an oblique angle compared to, well, almost everyone else, doesn't necessarily mean that his dissents are particularly salutatory reading, even if they do follow logically from whatever basic starting point he may choose.

[Desnudo]

Originally Posted by Tekneek

On the surface, this strikes me as a major reason to home school. I wouldn't trust every employee of a school to be acting as my equal.

I'm sure they can handle strip searches as well as you.

[Tekneek]

Originally Posted by Desnudo

I'm sure they can handle strip searches as well as you.

But I trust myself far more than somebody I may have never met, who was hired by somebody else I probably never met.