> State prosecutors, after weighing the girls' academic and social progress, asked the judge to acquit. An independent educational psychologist found no neglect. The parents filed some 3,000 pages of records, and the daughters — 11 and 15 — were documented reading roughly 30 books a year and studying Latin, English, piano and music theory. **The judge ruled against them regardless, faulting the home curriculum for omitting state-sanctioned instruction on gender, sexuality and cultural diversity**
> State prosecutors, after weighing the girls' academic and social progress, asked the judge to acquit. An independent educational psychologist found no neglect. The parents filed some 3,000 pages of records, and the daughters — 11 and 15 — were documented reading roughly 30 books a year and studying Latin, English, piano and music theory. **The judge ruled against them regardless, faulting the home curriculum for omitting state-sanctioned instruction on gender, sexuality and cultural diversity**