Posted on 12/19/2013 8:53:32 AM PST by Kaslin
Note: This article contains explicit language that some readers might find offensive.
Liberals in Ohio have used the death of a 14-year-old homeschooler in order to try to pass legislation that would require all homeschooling families to first have a home visit by some bureaucrat or another to see if they’re worthy enough for homeschooling.
14-year old Teddy Foltz was pulled out of school by his mother because teachers suspected child abuse, the story goes.
The child was subsequently beaten to death by the mother's boyfriend who is now serving a life sentence for murder and is eligible for parole in 33 years. The mother was sentenced to 15 years for complicity in the death of her son.
If it were up to me, I’d give the both of them the death penalty.
But as I said before a liberals never let dead kids go to waste. Or rest in peace.
One Ohio liberal is using this murder for all it’s worth, while practically ignoring the criminals.
“Loved ones of 14-year-old murder victim Teddy Foltz, have joined forces with State Senator Capri Cafaro, in an effort to pass Teddy's Law,” happily reports WFMJ.com, the local Youngstown NBC affiliate. “Senate Bill 248, as it's officially known, has been introduced to the Ohio Senate, and the mission is to protect children. Senator Cafaro hopes to put the bill on the fast track, and get it passed for the next school year, so that other children won't fall through the cracks.”
Fall through the cracks?
The only cracks that Teddy fell through were the cracks between teachers and child protective services in Ohio.
So in the grand tradition of progressives covering for other progressives’ mistakes, the senator is introducing a bill that would require homeschoolers--who has a class are completely innocent in this affair-- to go through onerous background checks in lieu of holding the bureaucrats who let Teddy fall through the cracks responsible.
This case is probably more of an aberration than the standard of home schoolers.
It’s just an attempt once again for the state to indoctrinate children to the wonders of the state.
Home school and church schools may be the last bastion against moral anarchy.
Liberals always believe the more government intrusion is the answer.
Ping
Her biography is a wonder of college degrees in “studies” designed specifically to interfere in the lives of private citizens. The woman is clearly aiming at a career in politics. When her current term is up she ill find a way to run for Congress, or governor.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
If they were suspecting child abuse while he was in the public schools, then it’s THEIR responsibility that he died.
They already had enough to go on and do not have to regulate homeschooling to ensure that stuff like this happens.
What do they think? That public school kids are never beaten to death by the mother’s boyfriend because they’re in public schools and are able to be watched?
Meanwhile, in the public schools, teachers have sexual relations with their students...
They are just lying in wait, hoping for something that they can use as an excuse to stop homeschooling. That’s how they do things. They have an agenda. They scan the news, and sometimes they say “aha! we can use this!”
And that’s how we lose our liberty.
I knew growing up, and had the shame to be related to, a family who turned out to be abusing their children in all sorts of horrifying ways. The kids are completely screwed up now. Yes, they were “homeschoolers”. We lived in PA, which has the strictest laws in the country and there were social workers in and out of that home all the time, one of the children was taken away, but the others were still left to suffer.
Was homeschooling to blame? No! Was it “lax government oversight”? The social workers were right there. Maybe they were lazy. Maybe they were fooled. But I can’t see what laws would have prevented it.
As for me, do not EVER try to act like you get the grant me permission to raise my daughter. I have guns for a lot of reasons.
You and many other homeschoolers.
They don’t know who they are messing with.
Parents have a right to direct their children’s education. That was settled in Pierce vs Society of Sisters. Ruling: The child is not the mere creature of the STATE.) Home schooling is legal in Ohio so it is a viable alternative to public schooling.
Busy body legislators tried to enact laws restricting home schooling in my state. Unfortunately, CPS fell down on the job and tried to blame it on homeschooling. Of course, they didn’t mention that they were at the children’s house 22 times in a 24 month period and knew the parents were home schooling. The proposed law got nowhere.
Ya think?!?!
Talk about dense thinking and expression....
government schools are far more dangerous
The bill’s author posted this on Facebook today:
SB 248 was never meant to be a policy debate about educating children in the home. It was meant to address weaknesses in the law pertaining to child protection. Unfortunately, the true intent of the bill to curtail child abuse has been eclipsed the by the issue of homeschooling.
After consultation with Teddy’s family, we have collectively decided the best course of action is for me to withdraw SB 248, and instead pursue a more comprehensive approach to address the current challenges in the state’s social service and criminal justice system.
It is our hope that this new focus will bring the discussion back to where it was always intended to be: protecting children. I am requesting field hearings to address the impact of current law, government agencies and nonprofit organizations on child welfare in Ohio. I will not include any content related to education in the home in a new bill, or in any other bill.
Through this process, it is our goal to craft a new bill to honor Teddy’s legacy and to protect vulnerable children like him in the future.
For your review, I have included copies of my letter to President Faber indicating my plan to withdraw SB 248 with a motion on the Senate floor, as well as my letter to Medicaid, Health and Human Services Chair Shannon Jones, to request field hearings on the topic of child abuse in the New Year.
yeah, “probably” wasn’t a good word.....but kinda touchy huh? I suggest no caffeine and up your brand intake.
But, now that the father and family is behind a bill to subject all homeschooling families to suspicion and interrogation by the state, they shouldn't mind answering a few questions, such as:
Why didn't Teddy's father see him for five years? He says the mother blocked his visits. For five years? Why didn't he get a court order for visitation?
Why didn't those in charge at the public school he attended do more to help this boy?
Why didn't neighbors, friends, family, even the police, and everyone who knew Teddy was being abused help him?
Innocent people should not be presumed to be possible child abusers because the state authorities, politicians, and family are looking for scapegoats.
“This case is probably more of an aberration than the standard of home schoolers.”
Honey, do everyone a favor and go read the article again. This case has nothing to do with home schooling AT ALL.
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