It appears you are not in favor of registering the kids with their local school district for any reason. I believe the main purpose is mainly to inform the city of the children’s existence, there general state of health (vaccinations) and their achieved academic levels. What would you suggest to protect two other children from going through a similar private hell with a deranged mother who is pretending to ‘home school’, when all she’s doing is holding them captive? My assumptions could be off, but I’m looking at all the details.
How about grotesque over-generalization of a specific crime problem into a completely unrelated area of law?
You know terrorists use the internet, right? And here you are using the internet, right? So where's your license? Have you been checked twice a year by a social worker?
Oh, is that not a fair comparision? Wrong. Multiple bills exist right now to do exactly that to users of the internet in the US. So it's not only not unfair, it's exactly what your kind of thinking leads to.
The solution is found in the Consititution. It's called freedom. You obviously find it scary, untrustworthy and mysterious.
WHY?
When I’m seeing on the news that one or more children/week have been molested by teachers or other school employees in our “wonderful” public schools.
Not to mention the total B.S. they are taught.
If public schools are so great, why can’t they even protect, as you allude to, our kids from the school employees?
I once called CPS Re: a battering teacher and was told that they didn’t interfere with school discipline.
Yet they sure want to interfere with parental rights.
Then you mention vaccinations—not in MY family.
You are thinking like a liberal - see evil or deranged behavior by one person and take away everyone's freedom - even though the intrusion and loss of freedom really won't do any good or prevent the supposed problem.
Are you aware that many more children in the care and custody of state governments have ended up as victims of horrible crimes as a result of the failures of the government?
Have you noticed how its always an unavoidable problem when a child in the government school system is molested, or murdered, or dies of a drug overdose, or commits suicide due to the bullying that happened at the school, but if a crime happens outside of the school system, suddenly something must be done. And that something always involves taking away the rights of parents.
Of course you have also fallen for the language tricks of the anti-homeschoolers. Why would anyone characterize an evil, and probably insane person as a "homeschooler"? Is there any evidence that the perpetrator was actually home schooling her children? Even if she claimed she was, why should anyone else assign that identity to her? Why not some other term, like "Detroit mother" or "welfare fraudster". Only one reason - to besmirch the reputation of the many people who do homeschool.
The children have already been “registered” by being born and getting a birth certificate.
Like it or not, vaccinations etc are VOLUNTARY, and (pains me to momentarily side where I don’t stand) those who weigh the odds and decide not to have that option. Indeed, those who _don’t_ adhere to certain social standards are legally ostracized and left few options; in a nation founded on LIBERTY, coercion is not a valid option precisely because it threatens violence upon mundane dissent.
How to protect others? start by choosing a course of action which is NOT built upon a non-sequitur. If someone is deranged enough to abuse children in such a way, harassing many thousands of innocents just to close one small “cover” for abuse, while leaving a thousand other “covers” available, is absolutely asinine.