Officials: AZ enclave kids may be missing school
Posted by: joshuah in Education, polygamous sectsMore propaganda from another AG. At our compound :-p we certainly don’t follow a homeschooling schedule that is similar to “school hours”, so it’s highly possible that these children might be seen during those times and still be receiving an education.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Possibly hundreds of children may not be receiving an education in a northern Arizona community long dominated by a polygamist sect, officials said Thursday.The assessment concerns some children of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a sect that long ago broke away from the Mormon church, which renounces polygamy.
In remarks submitted to a U.S. Senate panel in Washington, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said hundreds of children in Colorado City could be going without schooling. Goddard also discussed his comments during a telephone interview.
Goddard said children are frequently seen playing outside during school hours and school-age boys as young as 12 reportedly are working at construction sites.
But Mohave County School Superintendent Mike File said the number of children not in school could be lower because some FLDS members have left Colorado City and neighboring Hildale, Utah, with many moving to a new enclave in Texas.
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