Posted on 05/10/2015 11:24:28 PM PDT by Ray76
A homeschooling couple was arrested and had all 10 of their children taken by the state Thursday after a local sheriff acted on a tip about alleged poor living conditions at their 26-acre homestead where they live “off the grid.”
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Already somewhere on FR.
Other sources report that the dad threatened neighbors. I am not evaluating those reports here, but be aware that this is not a case where law enforcement was simply caught abusing authority with no possible rationale.
Hopefully further research will bring out just who is which kind of culprit, because of course, sheriffs have been known to get high-handed with people who are leery of government control of their children, too. That’s why conservatives are following this in the first place.
Obama has transformed the USA from being a free country into becoming a communist hell hole . and this monster’s conquest will be complete when he takes over the Internet on June 12 , 2015 (the FCC starts regulating the Internet then )
I searched.
So if the father threatens neighbors the children are imprisoned?
I did read it here before, so I wonder if the old thread got pulled?
I scrolled back and must have missed it. I searched on the headline too.
I looked and it is now gone; I guess the earlier one could have been pulled for some reason.
Maybe too many things said or language?
All your base children are belong to us.
Yes, that was done that way on purpose. Some long-time FReepers will understand.
Plastered all over facebook too.
They have 10 kids and the wife is pregnant again. There were pictures of the squalor they live in - no water or electricity - and outdoor, fenced in “kitchen,” with no modern conveniences. The kids are allowed to roam at will among garbage and broken glass. It looked like the babies didn’t wear any shoes, and their faces were filthy with mud or grime. They call it “free range parenting.” I think this is a case where intervention is necessary - because it’s really a sad situation. I don’t think the kids go to school - might be home schooled, but, without any modern conveniences, how are they to get a quality education? The mother has all she can do delivering babies.
That sounds like the way a whole lot of Appalachian families lived when Kennedy was President and we were getting ready to land a man on the Moon.
I guess they were lucky to have lived before the busybody generation came along and seized their kids.
And yet, “baby mammas” in deplorable gov’t subsidized housing all over the country get to keep their precious Michael-Browns-in-the-making without gov’t interference - in fact, with gov’t SUPPORT!
Some facts do exist....the dad did use a knife to convey a threat to the neighbor, and asked one of his kids to retrieve his gun. The neighbor said that was enough for him, and complained to the cops.
Another part of the story which is bogus...saying that they were home-schooled. They are ‘un-schooled’....meaning they experience life on their own time, own agenda, and when they feel like it. There’s no mention of books, curriculum (something that home-schoolers adhere to), or tests to measure progress. So it’s bogus to tie this family to home-schoolers.
As for the lawyer game to this? Basically, whoever they hire will meet up with the social services crowd, and the family will have to do two things...(1) move out of the hut they live in and probably into a trailer, and (2) develop some type of home-schooling atmosphere with curriculum and a plan to satisfy some judge (or put the kids into a regular school).
If you donate money to this cause....you are merely paying for some lawyer to convince parents to change, paying down on the trailer costs, and the books required for home-schooling. Whether dad gets jail-time for threatening someone with a knife is unknown.
Another part of the story which is bogus...saying that they were home-schooled. They are ‘un-schooled’....meaning they experience life on their own time, own agenda, and when they feel like it. There’s no mention of books, curriculum (something that home-schoolers adhere to), or tests to measure progress. So it’s bogus to tie this family to home-schoolers.
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Unschooling is a philosophy some homeschoolers adhere to...the successful ones use it with motivated intelligent and curious children, others use it to provide a life skills only kind of education.
“how are they to get a quality education?”
Home school.
If the mother is going to be working in addition to taking care of 2 babies and 9 other kids I don’t even know if that is workable. Maybe spend the money on tutors and school supplies instead of dog grooming + paying the best lawyer in the county to evade the law and CPS once again ??
“... others use it to provide a life skills only kind of education”
I am wondering if “life skills only” means the child never learns to read, write, do math etc... but only knows how to fish/hunt? I thought home schooling meant the child/children learned the academics.. perhaps at a slower or more advanced rate than schooled children. IMHO... the article keeps mentioning home schooling and I think it is wrong to use that term IF they aren’t schooling at all.
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