Posted on 01/25/2008 3:51:17 PM PST by george76
Legislative leaders, voting along party lines on Thursday, rejected proposed legislation that would require parental consent for schools to give children 14 and under prescription drugs, including birth control pills. Republican Sen. Douglas Smith of Dover-Foxcroft, who sponsored the measure, denounced Democratic leaders for not allowing the issue to be considered this session.
"This is a fundamental right we are talking about here," Smith said. "This is a parental right to control the prescription drugs their children are taking. The Democratic majority today felt that the state should have the right to intercede in that, and that is an unfortunate decision."
The proposed legislation grew out of a decision last fall by the Portland School Board to allow King Middle School to make all types of birth control available to students through its health center. Condoms have been available through the center since 2000.
Under current state law, children do not need their parents’ consent to obtain prescription drugs through their school.
Most middle-schoolers range in age from 11 to 13 and under the Portland School Board’s policy need parental permission to use the health center, but treatment is confidential under state law.
Students are not required to tell their parents what services they are using at the center.
(Excerpt) Read more at bangornews.com ...
Why people have their children in public schools is beyond me.
“I don’t care who you are or what you think your mandate is .... You do not come anywhere near my child with your agenda without my consent.”
Vernon of Bangor
Why doesn’t the court step in on the grounds of parental rights???
There’s nothing wrong with public schools. The problem is the parents giving total and complete control of their children over to the state. Today, far too many parents can’t be bothered to be parents.
“Why doesn’t the court step in on the grounds of parental rights???”
I believe a judge already addressed this saying a parents rights over their kids stops at the school door. Something to that effect.
She may have a point. They are coming from the homes of the people who elect these lunatics, after all.
I'm afraid you may be right; that's the standard fall-back position.
Insanity. Our public schools in action.
| "To have public school officials making these types decisions and cutting the parents and guardians out of the process makes this even more insidious. This is more than just an embarrassment for Maine and Portland. It appears to be part of the larger agenda by secular progressives to lower our cultural standards, and they are using our young people to do so." "This irresponsible action is indicative of the erosion of our cultural values. To have public schools playing a lead role in this is an outrage, and sends exactly the wrong message to our young people. Republicans need leaders who are not afraid to stand up for our core beliefs and values and I look forward to engaging these types of issues head-on during my candidacy for Congress," concluded Scontras. |
Regarding this very disturbing interference of Dems with parental authority, note that Mark 7:6-13, particularly verses 9-13, indicates that Jesus had reprimanded the Pharisees for likewise driving a wedge between parents and their children, wrongly nullifying the 5th Commandment.
Perhaps you're lucky enough to not be in an area where this is the case yet...
A judge has ruled that way in MA regarding the Parkers of Lexington.
In our district, the school nurse can’t even give the kids Advil without parental consent. No OTC drugs, no nothing.
| "To raise a happy, healthy and hopeful child, it takes...all of us. Yes, it takes a village."-Hillary Clinton addressing the 1996 Democratic Convention |
| "Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school."1-Texas Federal District Judge Melinda Harmon |
"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being.... It's up to you, teachers, to make all of these sick children well by creating the international children of the future.5
Educational leaders have warned that it's not enough to change the children. Adults must be reached as well. The solution? Hillary Clinton's vision of the collective village! Her book popularized today's plan for child raising through a network of "partnerships" designed to weaken the rights of noncompliant parents. Teachers, social workers, psychologists, business and church leaders... all would trained in the new ways of thinking and believing. All would be taught to compromise and find "common ground". All must embrace the new visions and values. And all must help parents raise their children according to politically correct ways-whether parents want their training or not.
After all, the collective society cannot, as Hillary Clinton suggests, "arrive at a consensus of values and a common vision,"6 unless everyone participates in the process. Nor can it create Clinton's form of consensus without "resisting the lure of extremist rhetoric and balancing individual rights and freedoms with personal responsibility and mutual obligations."7 All people must join in the new community dialogues where trained facilitators lead unsuspecting "stakeholders" toward predetermined outcome. All must be willing to pay for their personal rights by accepting the new collective responsibilities.--What Happened To Parental Rights? by Berit Kjos - 1996
Obama would be wise to seize on this issue. Or How does Obama feel on the parental consent bill which has appeared all over the country and is a definite HOT BUTTON.
Good : the school nurse can’t even give the kids Advil without parental consent...
Um, no.
Parents aren't turning their kids over to be raised or abdicating their rights by having them receive their education at the school.
They're sending them to the public schools to be educated with the tax money that's extorted from them, or at least that's what's supposed to be going on.
Basically, the schools have been hired to provide a service to the parents. They are not the families overlords. They need to get off their power trip, get over themselves, and get back to doing the job they were hired to do.
This power given the school nurse or doctor was rolled into the common consent form, which could be easily signed by parents, who over run with permission slips/forms at the onset of school, did/would not realize this dispersion of birth control was inserted under patient/school/doctor confidentiality. It became "bundled"..
I am told by a teacher of a incident where a young teen girl and Maine student has asked for this form of protection after her irritability, unable to consentrate on classes at her school was traced to her mother's boyfriend being sexually agressive, and she was worried about getting pregnant. She was not aware it takes 30 days to build up the desired protection needed and expressed anxiety. Her comment was he "would not wait". She was not seeking his advances. She was given directly to the School's doctor who is on campus several days a week. Now is all protected doctor/ patient information. Whether it was reported to authorities, I have no idea.
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