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States Increasingly Police Family 'Thoughtcrimes'
Patriot Post ^ | March 6, 2019 | Jordan Chandler

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.”

There’s 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 Resurgent’s 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.


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This is precisely why more and more families are pulling their kids from public schooling and increasingly homeschooling.

Amen!

1 posted on 03/06/2019 8:01:16 PM PST by upchuck
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To: metmom

Home school ping.


2 posted on 03/06/2019 8:01:46 PM PST by upchuck (Listening AOC? "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." ~ Mike Tyson)
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To: upchuck

The people promoting this deserve a short trial and a speedy execution.


3 posted on 03/06/2019 8:03:41 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: upchuck

This seems like a violation of the 4th Amendment.


4 posted on 03/06/2019 8:10:54 PM PST by JoSixChip (Trump stands alone.)
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To: upchuck
Bears remembering this passage from Orwell's 1984
"...There was a trampling of boots and another blast on the comb as the children charged into the living-room. Mrs Parsons brought the spanner. Winston let out the water and disgustedly removed the clot of human hair that had blocked up the pipe. He cleaned his fingers as best he could in the cold water from the tap and went back into the other room.

'Up with your hands!' yelled a savage voice.

A handsome, tough-looking boy of nine had popped up from behind the table and was menacing him with a toy automatic pistol, while his small sister, about two years younger, made the same gesture with a fragment of wood. Both of them were dressed in the blue shorts, grey shirts, and red neckerchiefs which were the uniform of the Spies. Winston raised his hands above his head, but with an uneasy feeling, so vicious was the boy's demeanour, that it was not altogether a game.

'You're a traitor!' yelled the boy. 'You're a thought-criminal! You're a Eurasian spy! I'll shoot you, I'll vaporize you, I'll send you to the salt mines!'

Suddenly they were both leaping round him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!' the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters. There was a sort of calculating ferocity in the boy's eye, a quite evident desire to hit or kick Winston and a consciousness of being very nearly big enough to do so. It was a good job it was not a real pistol he was holding, Winston thought.

Mrs Parsons' eyes flitted nervously from Winston to the children, and back again. In the better light of the living-room he noticed with interest that there actually was dust in the creases of her face.

'They do get so noisy,' she said. 'They're disappointed because they couldn't go to see the hanging, that's what it is. I'm too busy to take them. and Tom won't be back from work in time.'

'Why can't we go and see the hanging?' roared the boy in his huge voice.

'Want to see the hanging! Want to see the hanging!' chanted the little girl, still capering round.

Some Eurasian prisoners, guilty of war crimes, were to be hanged in the Park that evening, Winston remembered. This happened about once a month, and was a popular spectacle. Children always clamoured to be taken to see it. He took his leave of Mrs Parsons and made for the door. But he had not gone six steps down the passage when something hit the back of his neck an agonizingly painful blow. It was as though a red-hot wire had been jabbed into him. He spun round just in time to see Mrs Parsons dragging her son back into the doorway while the boy pocketed a catapult.

'Goldstein!' bellowed the boy as the door closed on him. But what most struck Winston was the look of helpless fright on the woman's greyish face..."

5 posted on 03/06/2019 8:12:04 PM PST by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: TigersEye

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.


6 posted on 03/06/2019 8:13:44 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: upchuck
Bill of Rights #4 - The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
7 posted on 03/06/2019 8:22:17 PM PST by monkeyshine
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To: upchuck

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.


8 posted on 03/06/2019 8:23:04 PM PST by grumpygresh (The only check on a rogue DOJ and FBI is jury nullification.)
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To: upchuck
"...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.”

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.

9 posted on 03/06/2019 8:30:28 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: JoSixChip
This seems like a violation of the 4th Amendment.

Why do you think the government cares about not violating rights? That's what they exist to do. To oppress and persecute.

10 posted on 03/06/2019 8:31:56 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: wastedyears
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?

11 posted on 03/06/2019 8:43:16 PM PST by monkeyshine
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To: upchuck

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’.


12 posted on 03/06/2019 8:43:18 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: grumpygresh

“I’m sure they’ll 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.


13 posted on 03/06/2019 8:45:51 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: JoSixChip

It is.


14 posted on 03/06/2019 8:52:24 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: upchuck

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.


15 posted on 03/06/2019 9:04:21 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Windflier

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.


16 posted on 03/06/2019 10:01:34 PM PST by GodAndCountryFirst
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To: upchuck; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

HOMESCHOOL PING

This ping list is for articles of interest to homeschoolers. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping List. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added or removed from either list, or both.

The keyword for the FREE REPUBLIC HOMESCHOOLERS’ FORUM is frhf.

17 posted on 03/06/2019 10:09:48 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

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)


18 posted on 03/06/2019 10:16:38 PM PST by vmpolesov
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To: upchuck

but if passed - they would go - PARTICULARLY go - to homeschoolers -


19 posted on 03/06/2019 10:30:24 PM PST by maine-iac7 ( Christian is as Christian does mt-h)
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To: upchuck

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.


20 posted on 03/06/2019 10:38:50 PM PST by maine-iac7 ( Christian is as Christian does mt-h)
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