Y’all, in the year of our Lord 2006, which according to my faux jewel encrusted pocket calculator is pretty much exactly almost 8 years ago, the Texas Education Agency met with some parents who were not teaching their homeschooled kids much of anything except music.  The reason?  Jesus was coming.

Apparently, there are no SAT questions in heaven.

According to a ruling last week by the Texas Eighth District Court of Appeals, Michael McIntyre and Laura McIntyre removed their nine children from a private school in 2004 to homeschool them.

Michael McIntyre’s twin brother, Tracy, testified that the parents used empty space in a motorcycle dealership that he co-owned as a classroom. But Tracy said that he never saw the children reading books, using computers or doing arithmetic. Instead, the children were seen playing instruments and singing.

“Tracy overhead one of the McIntyre children tell a cousin that they did not need to do schoolwork because they were going to be raptured,” the court document noted.

I have no explanation about why they continued to sell motorcycles because best I understand the scriptures, you cannot ride a Harley through the Pearly Gates.  Well, maybe you can but it doesn’t seem proper.

So, two years later, the Texas Education Agency looks into it.

And then last week, Texas courts ruled that those parents, with Jesus coming or not, had to educate their children.

So, they quit educating their kids in 2004 and it’s now 2014.  That means 10 years of education is gone.  I cannot prove this, but I believe that those kids are the founders of the Texas Tea Party.

Just thought you’d want to know.

Thanks to Frank for the heads up.