Take away people’s educational rights? That’s what my story is about. Amish people’s educational rights are being taken away from them. Amish children ARE people, and they ought to have the right to receive an education, to pursue whatever they want to be in life. They have the human right to be educated, but practically every Amish child in the United States sees that right snatched away. That’s child abuse, destroying the right of a human being to decide the course of their own life.

Again, I have no idea why you think parents should have the right to stop their children’s educations at the 8th grade. You engage in this conversation with your good English and good writing skills and argue with an apparent straight face that it’s OK to deprive Amish children of the opportunity to achieve the same literacy you have, the same life skills you clearly possess. Something must be deeply wrong with your morality, your decency, and your humanity.

Kids DO have a right to be educated, no matter what you say and how you frame the matter. I don’t what your motives are here for arguing so long about how it’s OK to withhold basic education from children, but it doesn’t much matter. Most decent humans understand that education is or must be a right. You’re on the losing side of this.