James Finn
1 min readDec 11, 2019

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I’m not flinging accusations at anyone. You home-schooled your kid. That’s wonderful, I applaud you for it, and that’s not what I’m writing about here. Amish parents don’t homeschool.Their kids simply don’t get an education to prepare them for life outside of Amish communities. School ends for them at 14. Amish parents COULD homeschool their kids. Or arrange for community schooling to meet their children’s needs. But they don’t. And that’s child abuse.

You may disagree with that, but if you were 15-year-old Torah running away from home in the middle of the night so she could get schooling, you’d wish the Supreme Court had ruled the other way.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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