Posted on 03/06/2019 8:01:16 PM PST by upchuck
As homeschooling rapidly grows, so too are state-level efforts to "oversee" families.
Oregon, Washington state, and even Iowa are trailblazing another assault on constitutionally protected individual rights. The state legislature in Oregon is currently mulling over a bill that directs Oregon Health Authority to study home visiting by licensed health care providers. The bill contends that home visits are necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety.
Theres a similar scheme being conjured up in Washington. In January, Gov. Jay Inslee (now a 2020 Democrat presidential contender) declared: My budget would also offer universal home visits. This gives every new parent the opportunity to get a visit from a nurse during the first few weeks back home with their newborn to share important information and build confidence.
Iowa Democrats are also attempting to gain oversight of families, specifically those of homeschoolers, The Resurgents James Silberman reports. IA HF272 would mandate quarterly health and safety visits to homeschool families by school district officials. The bill states that these visits would be with the consent of the parents but also specifies that parents can be overridden if a judge determines there is probable cause for home inspection.
PJ Media columnist Paula Bolyard astutely observes, As someone who has been involved in the homeschooling movement for more than 20 years, I have seen many attempts to increase the oversight of children taught at home by requiring home visits by a teacher or social worker. Anytime a state or locality has tried to draft legislation requiring home visits for homeschooled children, the immediate response has always been, What are they going to do next, require inspections for children from birth until they enter school? The answer to that, of course, is yes. That has been the plan all along.
This is statism, pure and simple. The Daily Signal this week relayed the story of a parent who said, I was shocked when my 13-year-old daughter told me she was really my transgender son. The parent added, Where did she get the idea she was transgender? From a school presentation.
This is precisely why more and more families are pulling their kids from public schooling and increasingly homeschooling. And while their reasons for doing so are more than justified, statists are ensuring that no age and no home is off limits when it comes to regulating thoughtcrimes.
Amen!
Home school ping.
The people promoting this deserve a short trial and a speedy execution.
This seems like a violation of the 4th Amendment.
Under what law?
If the law is not there, there isn’t a foundation for anything else either.
A severe boycott of the official public school system in such locales would be the thing that talks. They get paid by attendance.
This is one way to get mandatory vaccines. The ones for the home schoolers will probably contain extra Mercury, aluminum and viruses.
I’m sure they’ll be able to look for guns too. That won’t be a problem to get probable cause. Little johnnie the commie will be happy to tattle on their conservative and home school neighbors.
This is going to lead to violence, mark my words. At the very least, it will lead to thousands of families fleeing these totalitarian states.
Why do you think the government cares about not violating rights? That's what they exist to do. To oppress and persecute.
Which is why the Bill of Rights was written. But, if the government violates your rights and there is nobody there to stop them, did it really happen?
If this crap happens, I would simply advise people to do what they can to lay low.
It starts by NEVER having contact with their public schools - the people who get in trouble the most are those who get angry with the way their public schools are treating their kids and pull them out. For those people, it’s very possible that the schools will not let go of their kids and will have CPS cases opened on them. Rather than waiting for that to happen (which it will), simply DO NOT ENROLL THEM in the first place.
If it’s too late for that, then move to a nearby town (during the early summer), choose a private school that’s 20 or so miles away, and claim that your kids go there. Most people will stop at that, but obviously tell your kids to also claim to go to that school, should they be asked. For this scenario, be sure to tell the original public school that you’re moving out of state, that way they are less likely to any attempt to contact the schools in your new town (or even bother you again) - and obviously don’t tell the schools in your new town anything - if they don’t know you’re there, they have nothing to investigate.
At that point, you have to be somewhat careful not to attract attention, with that being most likely if your kids are in public during school hours (or visible to neighbors) - so avoid that as much as possible.
It sucks, but these are the types of steps we need to get prepared to do as this country gets ‘transformed’.
“Im sure theyll be able to look for guns too.”
Obviously any state willing to send agents into private homes, for any reason short of possible criminal activity is not going to be a pro-gun state.
What that means is that if you DO NOT turn in your AR and 17 round mags, when instructed, you sure as hell better keep them well hidden.
It is.
Beat them at their game.
Enroll the kidos is a “private christian school” program that is done by internet or mail. Pay their 300-400$ fee.
The children and parent will not be subjected to the state BS because they are technically enrolled in a private school.
Problem solved.
ACE Christian - Lighthouse Christian Schools is one that has been around for missionary kids for 50+ years.
Call me old-fashioned, but if a CHRISTIAN home is run to the satisfaction of the HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD, then that is all it needs to be. What happens inside the walls of a Christian home is nothing the state should be concerned about.
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This is interesting, I’d like to know more. Does this allow the family to forgo being categorized as ‘homeschooling’ by the state and associated regulations (I am in the HSLDA ‘yellow’ state of Washington and may home school)
but if passed - they would go - PARTICULARLY go - to homeschoolers -
Dear God, not this again.
They tried this in Maine 39 years ago - just after I moved back from CA to avoid their schools for my 5-year-old.there.
This was the catalyst that got me into politics.
Actually, homeschooling was forbidden in Maine at the time - and that will be the next step now. We fought a long 2-3 year fight but we stopped the ‘Home Health Visitor” (Who’s job description included: “Must be at least a high school graduate.” Then we got homeschooling legal and Maine is now the safest and best state for homeschooling.
But I am now a great grandmother, several times over. I’m fighting now their attempt to mandate vaccinations - I’m too tired to battle this one all over again, but I’m sure it’s coming.
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