The Church also runs and sponsors a school program. They have teachers. The Nursery School Teacher is one of the ones that flagged it and brought it to the Pastor. She is also a Mandatory Reporter. The Pastor in this case is not simply functioning as a Spiritual Leader. He is the Head Administrator of the School program. As near as I can tell most of the complaints came from that side of the church the children's education side.
I did mention the pre-school church lady as one of the possible mandatory reporters in my first post on the subject. They would be mandatory reporters if they were licensed daycare or school facility. Some churches are, some aren’t. They usually require it if there are x or more number of children being cared for or they are running a weekday program.
Minnesota seems more stringent than other states as far as home schooling requirements. Some states in the south, Midwest and California just require you send a note to the county board of education verifying a child is being homeschooled and that’s about all the oversight. I’d say all the complaints from Rekieta about taking his kids places were a result of the requirements in place.
Even if the pre-school teacher is a mandatory reporter she only reported it to the pastor to handle and he chose to go to the authorities. The other people mentioned as going to the pastor sound like friends and family, not mandatory reporters.
I think the thing that bothers me the most about certain homeschool parents is when it’s a control thing, has nothing to do with education or shitty public schools. Also Nick lives in Lilly white, high income, Republican majority, rural Minn. They have way less to worry about as fas as public education compared to the average American. People move to places like Spicer so their kids can go to decent public schools.
If his worry is preparing his own kids to be trustifarians then send them to expensive prep boarding schools where they can meet other future trustifarians to mingle with and discuss ways they will enjoy the family fortunes coming their way.
Nick has demonstrated to be a weird controlling dude and I now think his motivations for homeschooling the kids were bad ones. Esp because he doesn’t really seem to share the Christian values that homeschooling was supposed to help instill. Wtf was the point then? Control. It let Nick maintain tighter control over the family , who they associated with and what they learned.
Sheltered, poorly socialized home school kids would be easier to control and manipulate as adults which might be very important to Nick thanks to that trust fund. Lying, double talking Nick wants to make sure his kids never lie to him. dishonest people always think they have an advantage over honest one. I ascribe bad ulterior motives to almost everything Nick does now.
Nick mentioning he’d like his kids to be streamers is even more ominous now. Who better to oversee the children’s future “careers” as streamers than good old e-celeb Dad?
