It started with voicemail.
An official from the Eastern Lancaster County School District called a homeschooling mother to announce that she’d be coming by the next day at 8:30 a.m. Not dropping off a note or asking a question. She demanded to see the mother’s high school diploma, as though a government officer could appear uninvited at a private home and demand personal papers.
And the next morning, she did exactly that — arriving on the family’s doorstep with a school social worker in tow. It was an unmistakable display of power…