Judge orders kids to state-run daycare

CNews Tuesday 10th May, 2011

A Quebec judge has ordered a family to send their two youngest children to state-run daycare for "socialization." Along with raising concerns about speech delays in one of the children who has hearing problems, Judge Nicole Bernier said the kids, aged three and five, need "socialization" outside of the family. The parents also have two more children, aged seven and nine, who were forced last year to send their once home-schooled kids to public school under a court-order. The most recent compulsory daycare decision was handed down in March and is now being heard by the Quebec Court of Appeal. Translated from French, Bernier said of the parents: "They have isolated themselves with their children in a very limited view of what constitutes education of a child, wanting to protect children ...

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