Home-school cause at risk of being set back for decades
They're right, you know. Eddie O'Neill and Monica O'Connor, the home-schooling Co Carlow parents of six kids ranging in age from six to 26, are right in saying it's unconstitutional to make them agree to be assessed as their children's educators.
They're wrong in thinking they shouldn't have to register and agree to be inspected. They should.
But not according to the Constitution. Article 42.1 states that parents should "provide, according to their means, for the religious, moral, intellectual, physical and social education of their children". And Article 42.2 explicitly states that the education can take place at home.
