I've researched more than a dozen cases in recent months in which state "child protection" workersaround this country have pulled happy, healthy children out of loving homes for such parental "offenses" as serious as "bad housekeeping" or "failure to immunize."
Experts tell me this research has barely uncovered the tip of the iceberg.
The presumption in America today -- first for the poor, but increasingly for all of us -- is that our children belong to the state. The state allows those children to remain "out on loan" to their natural birth parents only so long as you meet all the government's requirements: Every vaccination recommended by the major pharmaceutical firms, no matter how dangerous or statistically useless. No guns in the house; no strange faith-healing religious beliefs. And you'd better make sure your kid reports to the local government youth propaganda camp from the age of 6 ... or is it 5 now? ... so the local educrats get their subsidies based on a full complement of little butts to warm the seats.
Now comes Senate Bill 73, pre-filed Feb. 1 for this session of the Legislature in the name of state Sen. Ray Rawson's entire Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.
The bill "requires state board of education to prescribe form for reports of parental involvement in education of children." In other words, it would enact Las Vegas Assemblywoman (and special ed teacher) Chris Giunchigliani's longtime dream: teachers filling out report cards on parents.
The teachers union would help draft a form on which teachers would grade parents on "whether the parent or legal guardian ensures the attendance and punctuality of the pupil, including, without limitation, whether the pupil: (1) Completes his homework assignments in a timely manner. ... " Also required would be "(b) A report of whether the parent or legal guardian ensures the health and safety of the pupil, including, without limitation, whether: ... (2) Current information is on file with the school regarding the health of the pupil, such as immunization records ... (3) The parent and child abide by any applicabe rules and policies of the school and the school district; and ... (c) ... whether the parent or legal guardian: (1) Completes forms and other documents that are required by the school or school district in a timely manner; (2) Assists in carrying out a plan to improve the pupil's academic achievement, if applicable; (3) Attends conferences between the teacher and the parent or legal guardian, if applicable; and (4) Attends school activities."
Looking forward to having your "parental report card" entered into evidence if you ever face a child custody hearing? Starting to get the idea that maybe (start ital)we now work for (start ital)them(end ital)?
This police-state measure goes on to assure us that the new parental report cards shall not "interfere unreasonably with the personal privacy of the parent and his child or the legal guardian and his ward." But in fact, destroying any remaining family privacy and freedom is precisely what this slave measure is about, the trick being that educrats and teachers unions will get to define the word "unreasonably."
I use the word "slave" advisedly -- slaves on the plantation two centuries ago probably had as much freedom to decide how their kids would be raised as we'll retain when the fascists proposing this crap get through with us.
The premise of public education is that these "experts" with their fancy "Ed" degrees know far more about what and how our kids should learn than do we "uneducated" boobs. Yet they're now so desperate to shift the blame for their failures that they seek a way to document "bad parental involvement" as the main culprit.
Parental involvement? Taxpaying parents who show up with detailed instructions on the course of study and method of instruction best suited to their individual child -- let alone concerns or demands involving library books and sex education curricula -- need not apply. Our only job -- as SB73 makes abundantly clear -- is to gratefully pay up, while teaching our children to obediently prostrate themselves before the altar of the almighty state.
My advice? Do (start ital)not(end ital) call or write your senator or representative to urge defeat of this measure. It'll just get back-doored later on. Nope: They've shown us what they intend, and there's only one solution left:
Pull your kids out of the government schools. Home-school every child. Leave their charnel houses of child enslavement and family destruction derelict and abandoned. We only think we "need" their glorified day care services because mom now has to work full-time just to pay the taxes on dad's paycheck ... primarily to fund the government schools.
Refuse to pay another penny in school taxes, loudly and publicly. They've declared war on the rights of parents to raise our own kids. And if it's war they want, Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower taught us the only terms we can afford to offer fascists:
Unconditional surrender. An end to the government schools. Close them all.
Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Subscribe to his monthly newsletter by sending $72 to Privacy Alert, 1475 Terminal Way, Suite E for Easy, Reno, NV 89502. His book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998," is available at 1-800-244-2224, or via web site www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html
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