Judge warns of child-abusing homeschoolers

World Net Daily ^ | March 10, 2007 | Bob Unruh

[PGalt]

One of America's anti-freedom robed mullahs has spoken. Judicial activism method-of-operation BUMP!

[AD from SpringBay]

Oh no - children not subject to the state! Quick, someone write some more laws! The children must be observed by the state. They must be registered and monitored. They need protecting from their parents.

[sageb1]

"how can we not monitor the educational welfare of all our children?"

We have been and that is why we are removing them from public schools.

[mtg]

I would say sending a child to public school is far more abusive than this judge can imagine.

[Clintonfatigued]

Actually, it's a legitimate concern. The overwhelming majority of home-schoolers are motivated by a desire to ensure their childrens' well-being. But there are a few parents who do use homeschooling to cover abuse.

[B Knotts]

It is frightening to some of these would-be overlords that a few serfs might escape their brainwashing.

[ozoneliar]

Missing from this story is: Are they going to appeal? Basic information.

[weegee]

A Superior Court judge in New Jersey says homeschooling is just about the same as deliberate child abuse.

The same case could be said of public schools that indoctinate children that homosexuality, abortion, and teen sex are okay and just a part of life.

[Netizen]

Actually, it's a legitimate concern. The overwhelming majority of home-schoolers are motivated by a desire to ensure their childrens' well-being. But there are a few parents who do use homeschooling to cover abuse.

Sad to say, but you are probably right. The thought never occured to me, but, I can see the potential for a large problem.

[Soothesayer]

Common Sense:

{"In order to protect individual freedoms, the founders of our nation wanted to be sure that governmental powers did not become overly concentrated. To prevent this, they wisely split power into three branches – legislative, judicial and executive. As the founders conceived it, the judicial branch has no power to make new laws. That power belongs to the legislature working through representatives elected by the people,"}

vs the Nazis

{Wolfgang Drautz, consul general of the Federal Republic of Germany, has said that "the public has a legitimate interest in countering the rise of parallel societies that are based on religion or motivated by different worldviews and in integrating minorities into the population as a whole."}

That's all that needs to be seen.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This guy is Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin's dream. "Your kids will attend their local re-education camps forthwith or the parents will be jailed--then the kids will attend."

Better bring the mod-squad to my house, buddy.

[EternalVigilance]

But there are a few parents who do use homeschooling to cover abuse.

Oh, puhleeze. You'd be hardpressed to find more than a handful. So, we're supposed to give up our liberty because a couple of people abuse it?

Terrorists use the internet. Do you want the government to therefore monitor every sentence you write and send over the web?

[weegee]

"A child in New Jersey, who recently was found unfed and locked in a putrid bedroom was allegedly 'homeschooled' and because no one, such as a teacher or nurse, was able to observe any abuse in a school setting, it went undiscovered," wrote Judge Thomas Zampino in a case that came before him.

Meanwhile Planned Parenthood is still the only group that seems exempt from having to report cases of child molestation to the police. Instead they destroy the evidence of the crime and enable to molestors to continue their deeds. We are told this is because a pregnant teen who is seeking an abortion may in fact be abused by someone at home and it could be "bad" for her to notify her parents.

[firewalk]

The judge, however, said he wasn't attacking homeschooling

Yes he was, and it goes much deeper than that.
He attacks the very rights of parents to raise & educate their children the way they see fit.

[CindyDawg]

It happens in public school too. I would like to see the statistics of kids that die or end up in the hospital from physical abuse. How many were home schooled vs how many were public school?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

It's ironic that these judges and other govt. officials won't send their kids to public school but are more than happy to send out CPS and the cops if yours don't attend. Their kids all go to vastly superior private schools.

[rlmorel]

I agree. If the prevalence of home schooled children is equal or less percentage wise than those going to Pubic School then it is a wash.

I personally think it would be far lower for homeschooled kids. This is BS as far as I am concerned.

[rlmorel]

He wasn't attacking homeschooling...

Riiiiiiggggghhhhhtttttt.

[weegee]

So you believe that the state has the right and the power to monitor all parents? This would mean we should all be subject to CPS surverys to ensure well-being.

Remember too that there are doctors who ask the kids if there are any guns at home.

Meanwhile we have illegal immigrants who are exempt from credit checks, criminal background checks, mandated vaccination, et al. It doesn't pay to be a citizen of the US anymore, you don't have to be a citizen to live here. Nation of sheep (and that phrase goes back nearly 50 years).