Posted on 10/16/2007 4:05:33 AM PDT by Man50D
A Missouri public school is taking a mother to court for withdrawing her son and daughter from the school and teaching them at home, after an apparent threat to the daughter's life at the school.
The case involves Moberly, Mo., mother Anita Nicoli, who withdrew her daughter and a son from Moberly Middle School recently after what she has described as a two-year campaign of intimidation by other students.
The breaking point came when another student, who allegedly had harassed and assaulted her daughter, drew a picture of herself holding a gun and pointing it directly at Nicoli's daughter. The picture was passed around among students, she said.
But now she is facing a court hearing in Missouri's 14th Judicial District, prompted by a complaint by the school after she withdrew two of her children.
Multiple telephone messages left with officials at the school district were not returned. But Nicoli told WND that she is accused of "educational neglect" by social services, based on a complaint from the school.
The incident that she perceived as a threat was especially egregious, she told WND, because the student who drew the picture showed it to her daughter, and then other students saw it as well. One student told a teacher, who took the picture. But Nicoli said when she found out and wanted a copy of the offending picture to pursue a complaint, the school told her it had been lost.
Drawings of weapons in schools aren't new. In fact, WND reported just weeks ago that a 13-year-old in an Arizona school was suspended for three days for drawing a sketch of a gun, even without any targeted individual.
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This could go either way. The mother should produce evidence on how many stoopid kids graduated from Missouri schools.
The Situation could go either way, but I bet the school has pretty good evidence because there are a ton of home schooled kids and this is very unusual.
so when will all Missourians who send their children to government schools be brought up on child abuse charges?
Some additional facts would be helpful. I find WND often prints a very interesting headline and then leaves out a significant detail or two.
My guess: the kid who drew the picture is a member of a protected minority. Mom violated a big rule of liberalism (homeschooling her kids) and thus will be given the full force of the law.
I hope she joined HSLDA. If so, that school district will get what’s coming to them.
Let’em try this crap in Georgia and a sh*t storm will follow.
The article says HSLDA is helping her, in which case the situation should be resolved pretty quickly I think.
Actually, libs with kids send them to private schools. Public schools are for proles.
Why would you ever believe the school, especially one that has let this situation go on for 2 years ? The school wants their per capita money and they are annoyed that the mom is going against the “system”.
You need to finish your sentence.
...resolved pretty quickly...in her favor.
The school is clearly overstepping their bounds and have no constitutional basis for their claim othere than that they want the money.
Nothing threatens The State like children who are not subjected to their Statist political indoctrination. I think it was Mao who was first to posit this axiom; maybe Lenin.
The woman should, of course, have the right to homeschool, and i suspect that will be the ultimate decxision. But there’s something not right with this story, either. For one, I assume that PLENTY of parents in Missouri homeschool with no problems at all. And what’s with these kids being bullied and harrassed for years? Your average decent kid just doesn’t draw that sort of negative attention for that long.
Possibly. If it becomes necessary, the mom should just put her kids back in school, hire security guards to follow them around, and sue the pants off the school system (including making them pay for the security guards).
It’s a good thing we have the HSLDA already set up and on the ground running.
When the left decides that they can’t survive the homeschooling wave, they’ll hit us HARD with the full force of the government. If homeschoolers had to play defense when this happens instead of being forearmed with the HSLDA, it could be a tough fight.
Everything you see the left doing these days - the fairness doctrine, the fight against Fox News and the internet, political correctness, “hate” speech laws, and the fight against homeschoolers -
all of this is just further evidence that their ideas cannot compete honestly with traditional conservative values.
A kid can be 'average' and 'decent' as you call it, but react when bullied. That, of course, spurs the bully (or bullies) to bigger and better things in order to get more laughs, more shock and a bigger thrill.
What's wrong here is that the school let this go on so long.
Sometimes they leave out the all the facts. LOL
MO Ping?
As a Missouri homeschooler, my take is this:
Missouri has always been friendly to homeschoolers as far as requirements go. This is a push to start making the state more unfriendly to us, in terms of requirements for the parents, paperwork involved, etc.
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