In April, Brazilian father and mother, Audato and Ieda Denardi were found guilty of the crime of “intellectual neglect” and were sentenced to 50 days in prison for homeschooling their two daughters without sufficient instruction on“gender and sex education” or “tolerance and diversity.”
The court also found that the girls, aged 15 and 11, not enjoying popular Brazilian musical genres such as “trap” or “sertanejo” was evidence of a criminal deficiency in their cultural education.
Even though the prosecutors in the São Paulo trial requested an acquittal after concluding that the minors were not suffering from any neglect and were demonstrating appropriate academic and social development, the conviction was handed down. It is currently under appeal before the Seventh Criminal Court Chamber of the São Paulo State Court of Justice. The Christian legal organization ADF International is representing the family, and it denounced the case as “a grotesque abuse of criminal law.”
Ya think?
Despite the fact that both girls are pianists with advanced training and are fluent in several languages, the judge accused the parents of “using their daughters as pawns in an ideological struggle, subjecting them to a form of unregulated education, the effectiveness and quality of which lack adequate metrics within the Brazilian legal system, while completely excluding the state’s involvement.” Julio Pohl, legal counsel for Latin America at ADF International, neatly pointed out the obvious: to be concise, the verdict is crackers.
“An independent educational psychologist found no sign of neglect. The girls themselves described rigorous daily education,” Pohl said. “The judge convicted anyway because a fifteen-year-old said she finds some music lyrics morally questionable, and because the curriculum didn’t include state-approved content on gender. A parent has been sentenced to prison not for failing to educate her children, but for educating them according to her own values. This is a grotesque abuse of the criminal law, and we will not let it stand.”
Let’s go through the occupants of Congress, the Senate, state houses and mayors’ offices and speculate which of them secretly (or not so secretly) would like to see similar “justice” in the United States. Do we even have to speculate on the how the leadership of the teachers unions would regard the Denardi case?
Ethics Alarms 
My wife’s and my greatest concern with homeschooling is the probability that in the near future, a Democratic majority will make what we do illegal, and prosecute us for teaching our children Catholic values, especially in the realm of sexual ethics. (After all, teaching our children there are only two sexes, and that marriage is really intended for one man and one woman is criminally hateful.)
Having seen the animosity leveled at homeschoolers even in very conservative Wyoming, it is no surprise to us that this prosecution and conviction has happened in Brazil. It very much could happen here, and sooner than we’d like to believe. This is especially true if Democrats take back the House, Senate, White House, stack the Supreme Court, make DC and Puerto Rico states, pass a nationwide popular vote compact, and all those other things that Democrats are promising to do if they seize power.
It has been stated many times with irritation and disdain that political parties have been making every election “THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVAH,” but given what the outspoken Democratic strategists have stated aloud, and given the nature of the most recent Democratic candidates, I am convinced that each election going forth is existential for the nation. And damn the Republicans for thinking all they need to do is field any creep, as long as there’s an “R” next to his/her name…
One of the most effective ways to argue against progressive ideology is to play it out in a hypothetical. If progressives got their way, what would society look like?
Something like this insanity. Hey, your kids aren’t educated enough in degeneracy. Fix it or you go to to prison.