How the Convention on the Rights of the Child Will Destroy Family Sanctity

Family Security Matters ^ | May 2, 2010 | Adam Raezler

[captjanaway]

The Convention on the Rights of the Child, an international treaty commonly referred to as CRC, is one of the greatest threats to parental rights our country has ever witnessed. Fasten your seatbelts for the fight for ratification. The CRC’s devastating impact on American children and their families can be seen easily in the text of the treaty and its application in both foreign states and in recent U.S. court decisions. Do not be misled by the arguments of American legislators, legal scholars and transnationalists who say U.S. ratification of the CRC would prove our commitment to the protection of the world’s children and their rights to the international community. The CRC is in no way a harmless treaty; it is an instrument used by transnationalists for widespread social change, beginning right here in our own country. Similar to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) treaty, U.S. ratification will in no way provide the children of the world with any additional forms of protections they don’t already enjoy under United States law, just as CEDAW affords women no rights beyond what they currently enjoy under U.S. law.

[bamahead]

UNICEF insists the CRC is not a mere statement of altruism. It is a “legally binding instrument” of “non-negotiable standards and obligations,” which would trump existing American laws that conflict with it.



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[porter_knorr]

And where are private schools in your pecking order?

[Sopater]

Parentalrights.org is actively persuing a constitutional amendment to secure parental rights.

S.J. Res. 16 (7 cosponsors)

H.J. Res. 42 (135 cosponsors)

You can sign the petition to support the amendment and encourage your representatives to sign on as cosponsors.

[TruthConquers]

“The homeschooling chickens are coming home to roost. THIS is why it is important to fight liberalism in the public schools. Now there’s a UN resolution coming down the pike that will be passed by the representatives the public school students have elected.”

SO, you think that if homeschoolers hadn’t left the wholesome and wonderful public schools, that the rabid and insane lefties would have been defeated? HA! So, which percentage of parents homeschool?

90%? 80%, even 50%? NO! At best the percentage is around 10%.

SO, your logic is FALSE!!!

The parents that STILL use the public school and think that it is just “other people’s school” are the problem. The fact that those parents haven’t done ANYTHING to stop the left is on THEIR doorstep. Not on the homeschoolers. We warned, got accused of all sorts of innane things, but we took our freedom and USED IT. Those who do NOT use their freedom, can’t complain about those who DO.

[metmom]

What a joke. Conservatives in public schools have not made a dent in the way the school system is going.

Your appeal for them to stay in the public schools and calling them cowards is akin to calling everyone who abandoned the Titanic cowards because they didn’t stay on board to help it stay afloat.

Maybe if they had all held their breath, it would have increased their buoyancy.

Or they could all have swum upwards.......

[metmom]

PWND

[metmom]

Thanks for the links.

[Theophilus]

You’re getting what you deserve. Thanks for nothing.

We don't believe in child sacrifice under any circumstances much less illogical and insane ones.

There is no such thing as a conservative government school. There never has been and never will be. Government schools are socialist by definition. They were designed by socialists and are run by socialists. The products of socialist government schools are socialists. They have been a very successful industry as evidenced by the state of our nation.

The UN can have my children when the take them from my cold dead hands.

[Tired of Taxes]

When you abandon the schools to the “progressives,”

The whole idea of "public school" in itself is progressive. "Free" public education, funded by the government, is a progressive idea.

[wintertime]

Government schools are fundamentally evil. Simply by attending children learn that government has the power to take money from their neighbor to pay for a service that their parents want tuition-free. Well...If government can give tuition-free schools why not a thousand other free things?

Some institutions are fundamentally evil. Would it have helped if conservatives worked in Nazi concentration camps in an effort to reform them? Where these camps reformable? Or...Was a complete SHUT DOWN the only rational action?

Government schools teach children to be socialists. They are temples of atheism that teach children to think godlessly. They sicken and kill souls. Reform is impossible. The only rational action is to shut them down.

[Soothesayer]

“Or have as many kids as we can, raise them right, teach them to shoot straight and vote/run/participate in the political process and take our country back by demographics.”

What you suggest falls under option 1.

[Sopater]

You’re getting what you deserve. Thanks for nothing.

If you were a real conservative, you would recognize that ultimately a child's education is up to their parents and not some gov't agency, regardless of whether it's controlled by liberals or conservatives. True conservatives know that the gov't doesn't belong in the education business anyway.

[JenB]

The homeschool movement was a reaction to the destruction of the public schools, not the cause. I am sorry if you feel like the rest of us should have worked harder to give your kids a good free education instead of the lousy free one they got.

Are private schooling parents also to blame?

[1010RD]

But option one is nonsense and won’t happen to my progeny. After around sixth grade your kids are immunized from any liberal indoctrination. At least mine our.

Logic and facts does the trick. Liberalism cannot stand either. It relies on lies, but the truth will out.

[Soothesayer]

How do you know you didn’t just get lucky? They said that Ted Bundy had an excellent upbringing.

[1010RD]

My models been reproduced and tested over four generations now. It works.

[wintertime]

The homeschool movement was a reaction to the destruction of the public schools, not the cause.
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JenB,

Your statement implies that there was a time when our socialist-funded, socialist-modeled, single payer, government schools were **not** destroyed.

I hope I can persuade you that government schools were fundamentally flawed and a failure from the beginning.

Almost immediately after the institution of socialist government schooling in the mid-1800s we saw the effects of socialist schooling. Within one to three generations of government schooling my parents, grandparents, and great grandparents generations approved the following:

The IRS
The direct election of Senators
Feminism
Unions
Woodrow Wilson and his “one world” League of Nations followed by the U.N.
FDR and his New Deal ( with marginal tax rates in the 90% range)
LBJ and his Great Society
The Department of Education
The abolishment of the gold standard

Yes, at one time, it was common for government schools to use effective teaching methods, such as phonics and traditional math. Yes, history was taught in a fair manner and children did learn about the founding principles of our nation. Yes, discipline was better.

But...

1) Simply by attending children learn that the government can use its police power to take money from a neighbor to pay for a service their parents want for tuition-free. Well...If government can provide tuition-free schooling, why not other “free” stuff? Just by attending children become comfortable with socialism. This can not be fixed and is a fundamental flaw that underlies all government schooling from the very first day a government school opened in the mid-1800s.

2) No school can be religiously, culturally, and politically neutral. All government schools will establish the non-neutral religious, cultural, and political worldview of the biggest political bullies. What is taught in government school **will** have non-neutral religious consequences. There is a fundamental conflict here with the First Amendment's prohibition against establishment of religion that could easily be avoided if all K-12 education were privatized.

3) Socialist-funded, socialist-modeled, single payer government schooling was the wet dream of the Utopian progressives. They have always directed teacher training and curriculum development. As with **all** and **any** socialist programs the move will always be toward greater government centralization and atheistic secularism.

4)While the Utopian progressives may have fooled the citizens of mid-1800s and early 1900s into accepting a watered-down and generic Christianity the move was and is toward secular atheism. It was inevitable that by 1962, when I attended government high school, I was subjected to a completely atheistic worldview with a 2 minute sprinkle of a scripture verse and Lord's Prayer during home room. Today even that is gone.

5) All schools must restrict First Amendment Rights to maintain order and safety. In private schools these matters are privately agreed upon between the parents and the owners of the school. ( Sometimes with some input from the child.)

When government restricts First Amendment Rights in its schools what it is doing is teaching children to be good little prisoners of the fascist state. In many ways the government treats children ( whose only crime is being born) like prisoners. Even the buildings resemble minimum security prisons.

If a child **rationally** rebels against being treated like a prisoner, armed police, will haul him before courts and judges and he will be sentenced to hard time prison in juvenile detention.

6) All parents who wish to escape the government school non-neutral religious, cultural, and political indoctrination are essentially put in the position of having to **ransom** their children from the government. Not only do they continue to pay government school taxes all their lives, but none of that tax money can be used to cover private school or homeschool expenses. That extra money that is needed to pay for private or home schooling is **ransom** ( some call it “jizya”)

Remember, behind every government school stands armed police with real bullets in those guns on the hip.

7) All government schools disrupt the normal market in education. They are essentially a price-fixed cartel that is giving its services away for tuition-free. As a result a very hostile business climate is created for anyone wishing to run a private school business. In my county, for instance, there are absolutely no private schools.

We would have the same disruption if the government ran farms and grocery stores. Surely private grocery stores would exist in some communities but they would serve niche markets for the very wealth or those with special religious dietary needs.

The above can not ever be fixed and each of these fundamental flaws existed from the very first day a socialist-modeled, socialist-funded, single payer, government school opened its doors in the mid-1800s.

( not proof read. I am in a hurry this evening.)

[wendy1946]

There is no such thing as winning any sort of a culture war while sending your children off to the enemy for indoctrination.

[JenB]

I agree that government schools were corrupt and flawed from their start. But when I say “destruction of the schools”, I envision a bomb that has exploded. Just because in the 50s it may have looks fairly harmless and inert does not mean it really was, but it is fairly recently that the destruction became obvious.

[uptoolate]

The UN can have my children when the take them from my cold dead hands.

I heard Voddie Baucham use those words in a conference during "The Ever Loving Truth" seminars. I stood up right there, tears in my eyes, hands clapping together, and pledged my allegiance to the same view. My children are God's, and He has commissioned me to raise them.