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Dad Refuses to Take His Son for Psych Evaluation After Harmless School Incident.
The Blaze ^ | Jun. 12, 2014 | Jason Howerton

Posted on 06/13/2014 6:39:08 AM PDT by moonshinner_09

( headline Dad Refuses to Take His Son for Psych Evaluation After Harmless School Incident. Then He Received a Letter That Left Him in Disbelief )

A New Jersey father defended his son, Ethan, after a simple pencil-swirling incident nearly resulted in the boy’s suspension earlier this year because a classmate claimed he was spinning it like a “gun.” Following intense media scrutiny, school officials reportedly backed off and it looked like the situation would just blow over.

Then Michael Chaplin says he received a stunning letter from New Jersey’s Department of Child Protection and Permanency and Department of Children and Families. Despite the fact that the superintendent of the Vernon Township School District decided not to take any disciplinary action, the state reportedly claimed to have found “an incident of abuse or neglect.”“I received a letter from them saying they had found an incident of abuse or neglect regarding Ethan because I refused to take him for psychological evaluation,” Chaplin told WPIX-TV.

Though he disagreed, Chaplin agreed to take his son for the evaluation. In addition to having his blood and urine being taken for testing, Ethan also spoke to a social worker.

Officials apparently found no behavioral problems with Ethan.

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TOPICS: Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: education; newjesery; zerotolerance
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Is this still American ??? So they found an incident of abuse or neglect regarding Ethan because I refused to take him for psychological evaluation... the father now claims that the state is demanding further evaluation and even threatening to terminate his parental rights and put Ethan up for adoption if he refuses to comply...These guys at this school are overdosing on political correctness and they are not acting in the best interest of the child.The child must be traumatized for what the school is doing him and to his father...
1 posted on 06/13/2014 6:39:08 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09

I would tell the dictators THEY are the ones in need of psychiatric care for making ridiculous assertions.

“No! I’m not taking my son anywhere except out of your jurisdiction!

“You have no logical or legal basis for your demands!”

“Your behavior is worse than Mao’s re-education camps!”


2 posted on 06/13/2014 6:45:45 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: moonshinner_09

Anywhere there is a government bureaucrat with even a little power, there will be abuses of that power.


3 posted on 06/13/2014 6:45:53 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: moonshinner_09

this is what happens when you hand your children over to the government for what does not even amount to a meager education... 180 days a year for 13 years of indoctrination... and this is why this is no longer America—the America we say we love... the America we say we do not want to lose...


4 posted on 06/13/2014 6:46:15 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: moonshinner_09

Sounds like he should leave the Peoples Republic of New Jersey for a state where there is still some semblance of liberty. Probably needs to move in a South or South by Southwest direction.


5 posted on 06/13/2014 6:46:25 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: moonshinner_09; All
the Elitist Nannie State Morons; Must have (demand) a sacrifice,
on the platform of Marxism..much like abortion/late term.

6 posted on 06/13/2014 6:47:33 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: moonshinner_09

Unless the pendulum swings one more time towards sanity and away from Orwellian groupthink controls America is lost, we will have to take our share of responsibility, we were asleep at the switch.

We allowed this. I believe we all may have reasoned they aren’t after me, yet, so I will let it pass. After all this is America! Let the brain-dead among us have their day, right will win in the end.

Will it?


7 posted on 06/13/2014 6:48:01 AM PDT by the anti-mahdi
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To: moonshinner_09

This is local government out of control. First this guy needs to lawyer up. Then he needs to seriously consider moving to another state. People want to do something? Publicize this and run for school board/superintendent and other local offices. Nobody wants the job and some complete bozo winds up with it. Oh, and home school your kids.


8 posted on 06/13/2014 6:48:40 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: moonshinner_09

Hats off to this Dad for doing the right thing and protecting his son’s future 2A rights... which certainly sending the kid to the Gulag is aimed at putting him on a list to prohibit the excersize of those rights down the like.

Next step, move out of New Jersey.


9 posted on 06/13/2014 6:49:28 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala

No kidding, move out of New Jersey! The rifle I had as a kid, a Marlin Model 60 .22lr, is considered a machine gun and possession is a bigtime felony because it is an 18 round semiautomatic. Nucking FUTS!


10 posted on 06/13/2014 6:51:54 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss you, dad.)
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To: moonshinner_09

These “child protective” Nazis need to be stopped.

In state after state, these tyrants abuse children and families, and no one does a damn thing. From Justina Pelletier in Massachusetts, to this outrage in New Jersey, it goes on and on.

The father was a fool for taking his soon to these psychos.
Put the boy up for adoption if he won’t allow them to further abuse his son? Are they friggin’ kidding me?

I hope he sues the morons at his kid’s school as well as these “child protective” Nazis.


11 posted on 06/13/2014 6:51:57 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (I don't want to feel "safe." I want to feel FREE!)
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To: moonshinner_09

DYFS is going after this family because they perceive them to have enough money to pay for DYFS’s “services,” but not enough money to put up a good fight. It has nothing to do with the child’s well being. It never does.


12 posted on 06/13/2014 6:52:13 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Wagglebee, welcome home we missed you! ~ Þ)
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To: moonshinner_09

The father is right to adamantly refuse their demand. The mere fact he is ‘evaluated’ will put him on a “potentially crazy” list and keep him from any number of freedoms many take for example. Owning a gun is one example.


13 posted on 06/13/2014 6:53:21 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: moonshinner_09

Has Governor Christie checked-in on this?


14 posted on 06/13/2014 7:00:51 AM PDT by AU72
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To: moonshinner_09
Did they also order "NO POP-TARTS" for the kid?
15 posted on 06/13/2014 7:00:54 AM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: G Larry

“No! I’m not taking my son anywhere except out of your jurisdiction!”

You wait to tell them that until *after* he’s left the area, and preferably after the *rest* of your family is gone, too.


16 posted on 06/13/2014 7:03:16 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: moonshinner_09

Sue.

Sue hard.

Sue often.

Make the liberals cringe in their diapers, grasping their silly little “eddikation” degrees.

This will be in preparation for the upcoming CW-II, in which liberals will receiver their just dues.


17 posted on 06/13/2014 7:09:35 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: PLMerite

I just saw the video interview with the father on another thread.

This is simply a matter of the dictatorial behavior mongers retaliating for having their authority questioned.

They need to be fired NOW!


18 posted on 06/13/2014 7:10:10 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: moonshinner_09

He needs to lawyer up, then get in front of every camera possible, and NAME NAMES. Call them out. Say “This person wants to drug my child for holding a pencil!” Call them out on it. Hit the media, social media, every possible outlet.


19 posted on 06/13/2014 7:12:53 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: moonshinner_09

Why are the names of the responsible officials NEVER given in these stories? Not even in “conservative” media. The only state official named is Chris Christie. He’s not really the problem here.


20 posted on 06/13/2014 7:16:08 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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