Posted on 03/11/2011 8:35:25 AM PST by TheDingoAteMyBaby
In the aftermath of the horrific Barahona child abuse case in Miami, an investigative panel is urging child welfare and education officials to set up an alert system and follow-up inspections whenever an at-risk student is suddenly pulled out of school to be educated at home.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Title is misleading. The kids were not even home-schooled.
“By taking these kids out of the school setting, these bad people removed a level, a layer, of protection for these kids,” said Roberto Martinez, a former U.S. Attorney in Miami who also serves on the state Board of Education. “These kids were not home schooled. They were home-detained, tortured and executed.”
And I disagree that having kids in public school is always a “layer of protection”.
HS Ping
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Any time the government is involved in your life it’s protection, Citizen.
There are far too many cases of child-abuse by adoptive parents. A perfect way to hide children is ‘home schooling’ which has nothing to do with education and tarnishes authentic home-schoolers.
Adoption agencies are failing to protect these vulnerable children. Many ‘parents’ receive payments from the government for their ‘services’. Bringing back orphanages might be a better idea...at least the children will have power in numbers.
Florida’s HS laws are pretty dang restrictive, and more laws are never the answer to bad events. I personally know a family that did terrible things to their children in PA while claiming to homeschool, under some of the toughest HS laws in the country. Did nothing to stop them, naturally.
Yes - by all means - this case has a lot to do with a bunch of Christians and Conservatives and Blacks trying to escape the crappy schools.
This is NOT a home schooling problem. It's a convenient excuse for the government to grab more power. The state had plenty of chances to notice there was a problem. If anything it should be an indictment of the entirely ineffective government agency.
What is an “at risk” student? I wonder if the teacher(s) suspected abuse and the so called parents then pulled them out of school? Seems to me the focus should be more on abusive parents than kids that are home schooled.
Abuse WAS reported when they were in school and nothing was done to help them! Social services investigated—I assume they even went into the home— and found nothing wrong (as usual). So how would additional intrusion into the homeschooling community have prevented this?
The school called protective services THREE times on these folks....
When investigated, so-called protectors did NOTHING...unfounded claims as they were concerned...
This is a bunch of politicos trying to throw attention at home-schooling as the blame and divert attention away from the INCOMPETENCE of the PROTECTIVE SERVICES! Florida has a STELLAR record of PROTECTION....(do I need the sarc tag)
That "HOME SCHOOL" headline is a deception to deflect blame from the public schools.
The fix is in.
The poor children were never "home schooled".
How did the beastial step-parents EVER get these children???
Lawyers associated with THAT should go to JAIL!
And here I thought Bush fixed CPS. You mean he didn’t? Hmm.
And even more by public school teachers.
These kids were SUPPOSED TO BE under DCF supervision. The worthless DCF worker testified before a judge that she wasn't able to get to see them “until later on a Friday” so she had to put it off until after the weekend. The judge, obviously appalled by her lackadaisical attitude and answer asked her why she didn't go see the kids on Saturday morning to which the DCF POS said, “I'm not allowed to work on the weekends”. The judge verified with DCF that there is no rule in place that prohibits DCF workers from performing their duties on the weekends.
How quickly everyone forgot about RILYA WILSON; The jewel in DCF’s crown of ineptitude. This is yet another example of how absolutely ineffective and worthless DCF is.
No, the schools did what they were supposed to do, which was to call CPS. Three times. It was CPS that failed to do anything.
Really? Because I can't recall the last story I read about a public school teacher starving, torturing and beating a child to death.
I just said they commit child abuse more. Sexual abuse of a minor is child abuse. I nver said anything about starving, tortuing or beating children so I don't have a clue where you are coming from.
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