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Wintertime, verga asked you a simple direct question: Specifically, when were you or your children placed in jail or taken in custody while you were homeschooling?

You seem to ignore quite a few of his questions.

Let me ask you: Have you ever been held at gunpoint to send your children to public school? Were you, your wife, or any of your children ever arrested for not attending a public school?

BTW I don't have a ping list, I'm just an career ex-military officer that doesn't like bullies.

Re: Our nation's socialist entitlement and government owned and run K-12 schools and police and court enforcement:

Since you are a military officer, I am confident that you understand that every government law has the backing of police and court power. Our Founding Fathers understood this and strove to **limit** government to its most basic and essential function: Protection of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness ( private property).

Therefore......Backing every compulsory government school there are armed police and judges that stand ready to enforce the compulsory school attendance laws. If you do not believe the above, I suggest that you do a Google search on the words: Truant, police, and courts.

If a citizen refuses to pay their taxes to support the godless and socialist-entitlement school, again, armed police and judges stand ready to see that they are paid. On occasion, I have attend county auction of properties being sold for failure to pay taxes. Armed sheriffs were in attendance, and the former owners of the property did face court action. Armed sheriffs were very much a part of the entire eviction process.

Most people are rational enough to avoid full blown confrontation with the police and courts, (risking not only imprisonment but death, ) but it does happen occasionally.

Some socialist schooling defenders will say, “But....There is always the freedom to homeschool or privately school.” Yes, there is. We must thank those courageous citizens who went to great expense and personal hardship to bring these matters before courts, literally dealt with armed police, and who that eventually secured the freedom to remove their children from the government's vise. But...Today, to escape the iron grip of the police and court backed government indoctrination camps, parents must pay the jizya to secure their child's ransom. Not only must they take on the extra expenses of private and home school but they must pay, all their lives, to support the godless socialist entitlement system of government schooling.

Thanks to the government's creation of socialist-entitlement schools ( a cartel and price-fixed monopoly) , which is giving a service away for tuition-free, private schools are scarce in many counties. And....As is typical of government run programs these cartel, price-fixed, and monopoly schools are **expensive**. I have estimates as high as $17,000 per child. The high taxes needed to support this bizarro system of government schools far too often forces both parents into the workplace. The stress contributes to family dysfunction and then the government teachers complain that they aren't getting “support” at home from the **exhausted** parents.

Re: Bullies ( An example)

Bullies continually harass other posters with unwanted, completely unsolicited pings even after being requested politely and respectfully not to do so. One variant of “bully” is STALKER.

Bullies make nearly every discussion **personal**.

Re: Victim

The person who is repeated harassed and stalked with unwanted, and completely unsolicited pings even after requesting in absolutely the most polite manner that they stop.

Re: An example of projection

Bullies who call the **victim** a bully.

However, I have complete faith that debating tactics used by many government school defenders ( some of whom are government school workers) and seen here on Free Republic would **never** be used against emotionally vulnerable and emotionally and socially immature students in any government classroom ( who, like prisoners, are in an inferior position of power), To do so would be child abuse.

Now that I have politely and respectfully answered you posts. I request that you not ping me, include me on any ping list, send private mail, or notify me of any article you might find interesting for the duration of this thread.

You have my full permission to make statements about me ( personally) and to comment on my posts. I request that you not ping me or send private mail if you choose to do this ( for the duration of this thread).

Only a bully or a stalker would ignore such a polite and respectful request.

With great respect and politeness,

Wintertime