Posted on 01/05/2010 10:38:45 AM PST by Sopater
A Montgomery County couple has been arrested on child endangerment charges for failing to register their children with the school district as they were home-schooled, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said Monday.
Richard Cressy, 47, and Margie Cressy, 41, both of the town of Glen, never registered their four children or their home-schooling curriculum with the local school district, said the Sheriff's Office.
The Superintendent of the Fonda-Fultonville Central School District confirmed the four children, ranging in age from 8 to 14, had not been registered with the school district for the last seven years.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbs6albany.com ...
No hablo
Big Brother and Sister are looking out for you and want to know what YOU are doing too.
Why do you have to register your kids with the school district when they’re not going to school?
Doesn’t make sense
The reeducation centers need to put it in your permanent file that you were AWOL...
back on plantation, comrade. Got a straggler...
So why didn’t they just register the kids as home-schooled?
I’m all for home schooling and private schooling. But I also believe that ensuring that every child is schooled fits into the general welfare clause of our constitution.
It’s in my best interest, as well as society’s, for all children to get at least a basic education so that they know enough to hold a job and I don’t have to support them when they’re grown.
I have absolutely no problem with school districts making sure that kids are either in public schoolrooms, in home schools, or in private schools and not on the streets.
It’s absurd when parents refuse to comply with reasonable regulations. It’s for the benefit of society. Refusing to obey the law is NOT an indication that they’re rearing those kids right.
Rant over. Flame on.
LOL
I’m already on the way goose-stepping
Because most states have laws that require kids to be in school - i.e. getting a basic education — until they’re at least 16. Willingly keeping a kid out of school is known as “truancy,” and it’s against the law. All these parents had to do is verify that they were educating the children themselves. If they were.
To avoid violation of truancy laws, I guess.
Seven years? !!!!
Real emergency there! Quick arrest the parents! (/sarc)
again, it might be the law though I have never heard of it but why do schools districts need to have my children register with them when they’re not in their schools?
To answer you , even if I did register then the school has no clue how I am teaching unless you want the schools to come into my home and check on my kids.
I hope you’re not saying that
suppose but I see kids every day not in school and the police go right by.
Funny how they find manpower to “protect” these children... but can’t seem to find the manpower to protect children in the system that are being abused, molested, and assaulted throughout the state every day.
Wow! Hm?...So the kids in the government indoctrination camps ( oops! “schools”) are getting a basic education? Really?
The following is the letter I just send to my church’s leaders ( local and regional):
December 29, 2009
Dear Ministers A, B, C, D, and E:
The Hispanic children with whom I am associated are very intelligent and motivated, yet, I am very concerned about the appalling reading and arithmetic skills that I find during the Tuesday night tutoring sessions. One child ( about 12 years old) is completely illiterate and innumerate. Nearly all the children struggle with reading. All of the children are grossly delayed in learning their math facts.
Of the children with whom I have worked, all have a poor grasp of phonics and none ( regardless of grade) have mastered basic math facts ( addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division). To compound the problem, their homework requires mastery of these basics even though the children have not mastered them!
If it is child abuse to send a child who cannot ski up to the top of a mountain and push him off onto a double black diamond trail, then it is child abuse for a public school teacher to assign homework to a child that is utterly impossible for him to complete. The frustration, guilt, and depression on these children’s faces is plainly evident. Every day in school and every evening at home with homework must be a minor hell of despair for them. Why would we be surprised that too many drop out at the first opportunity?
On Tuesday before the Christmas school holiday, I helped a girl with the addition of mixed fractions. This was her formal homework assignment for that day. How is it possible for a child to add mixed fractions if she has absolutely NO idea what the denominator or numerator of a simple fraction represent? How can she find common denominators when for mulitiplication and division she needs help drawing lines and dots on paper for her to group? How can she convert improper fractions to proper fractions and whole numbers when she adds and subtracts with her fingers and can not carry a value from the ten’s column to the one’s column? In other words, the assignment sent home for this child was **impossible** for her to understand. She told me that she is given homework assignments like this every day! This child is literally being pushed off a double black diamond educational mountain every day when she is not even a beginner. I call this child abuse.
What I am witnessing is SYSTEMATIC EDUCATIONAL MALPRACTICE and CHILD ABUSE!
I suggest that the following begin IMMEDIATELY:
· These children need a DAILY ,SATURDAY, VACATION, and an ALL- SUMMER afterschool educational program in highly structured and systematic phonics.
· DAILY drills in math facts.
· Appropriate rewards, certificates, and ceremonies to recognize the 100% mastery of specific levels of achievement in phonics and math facts.
· The children MUST NOT MOVE ON UNTIL THEY HAVE MASTERY OF A LEVEL!!!
· The older children must have 100% mastery of the fundamentals of arithmetic before moving to fractions. Each level of mathematics needs 100% mastery if there is to be any success on the next level.
· The parents must be instructed on how to create a learning centered home with TV, DVDs, I-pods, games, and Internet completely restricted until the child fully completes his weekly assignment goals. These goals must be rational and achievable.
· These children will need volunteers to pick them up and take them home from any afterschool program. Many of their parents are working more than one or two jobs and it is likely that many would find it impossible to bring their children to an afterschool program. Some may need tutoring in their homes.
Long term solution would include a combination of the following:
· Totally restructuring the public schools.
· KIPP charter schools or something similar.
· The church opens its own private tuition-free schools.
Although the Tuesday evening tutoring program is functioning as best as can be expected under the circumstances, it is far too little to do much good. It is like aiming a water pistol at a raging forest fire. The futures of these children are literally being burned up in slow motion. These children need INTENSIVE and SYSTEMITIZED INTERVENTION!!! They need it IMMEDIATELY!
The problem is a failure of the school to teach phonics in a systematic and rational manner, and a failure to demand that children master the basic levels in math before moving forward. It is a failure of the schools to properly group these children into an appropriate levels of mastery. It is a failure of the schools to assign the appropriate skill level of homework to these children.
Please forward this letter to those in the church and community with the authority to make a serious change. Children should never be neglected and emotionally abused in this manner.
Respectfully,
wintertime
We really need to put a stop to ALL of this nanny-state BS.
People need to rise up and get these things off the books. Why do we constantly punish the innocent and give the playbook to the criminals?
Yeah I know some say it will make it harder for LE to do their job...well give them a raise and require them to work harder. We have to get our freedoms and liberties back - this is absurd that a couple could be charged with this...the kids are probably getting a much superior education and it is costing the taxpayers less...YET THEY ARE SCREWED NOW FOREVER!
Can you imagine where this is going to go? Some liberal judge takes the kids away and forces them into public education over this...
How's that working out for you so far with the output from the public schools?
Gee! I have an idea!
Given the enormous success of homeschoolers and the appalling failure of the government schools, let's make the government principals and teachers report to and register with the HOMESCHOOLING parents!
I can't answer that without getting nuked by the mods.
Here in PA, you not only have to "register" with the school district, you have to submit an affidavit assuring them of your own diploma, assuring them that everyone in the house is not a bad guy, perv or felon, and stating your relationship to the student; you have to submit a yearly portfolio of work samples and a detailed log of your activities representing 900 hours of schooling; in some grades you have to provide evidence of medical exams, for vision or hearing or other things; in some grades you must have the child take a competence exam to show proficiency in academic subjects. You must also supply the documentation from a professional evaluator (who is a licensed person) stating that they have interviewed your child and reviewed your log, work samples, etc., and find that you are administering a proper education to your child. (Typical evaluator fee, $100, and it's from your pocket.) There is a deadline for submitting the portfolio with all this CRAP and God help you if you object to anything. The school principal and superintendent BOTH look over all your paperwork and notify you if they approve or not. If not, there's a deadline for enrolling the child in one of their $&#*@! wonderful public schools.
You are also subject to arrest and your child to kidnapping by the child protection racket.
That's police-assisted kidnapping, at gunpoint if need be.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.