Posted on 11/17/2011 6:48:42 AM PST by wintertime
Chief District Court Judge Brenda Branch has ruled that Halifax County (NC) parents are going to be held accountable for their children’s school attendance — and that could mean jail if they are not deemed to have made an effort to promote school attendance, writes the Daily Herald.
The proposal is a collaborative effort between the Halifax County court system, three public school systems and county agencies that are looking to address truancy issues for students in the district.
It was announced this week at the Halifax County Community Child Protection Team meeting. Branch, along with District Attorney Melissa Pelfrey delivered the message as many heavy hitters in the Halifax County law and public education fields rallied behind the proposal.
“There was much confusion around who’s responsibility it was to handle truancy that some children were missing from 40 to 80 days from school without suffering any consequences,” said Arnethia Nicholson, chair of the team and Halifax County Department of Social Services employee.
The combined efforts of the school systems, Halifax County court system, Department of Juvenile Justice, Department of Social Services and The Community Child Protection Team resulted in the Tri-District Truancy Procedure, which could ultimately land a parent in front of a judge.
How is the state forcing you or me to enroll our children?
That you are homeschooling proves their is no compulsory enrollment. My parents sent my brother and I to Catholic school. My friend down the road has her boys in a private academy in the next county. One of my daughter’s best friends attends a Christian school in another state (we live close to the state line, it’s not that far.) Another of her friends is homeschooled and also works on the family farm.
You have made a choice on how your children will be educated, as have I. That we have such a choice is proof there is no force.
Since you are taking the liberty of calling me your “dear”, may I call you “Honey bun”?
Regarding compulsory:
Please read the title of the thread. Parents are being threatened with police, court, and prison. If the parents were sufficiently resistant the police would kill them. That is the very definition of government “compulsion”.
Next,...Because the government is running a price-fixed monopoly cartel and has set their tuition at the under-market price of “tuition-free”, they have created a very hostile business climate for the creation of private alternatives. In my county, the price-fixing practices of compulsory government schooling have driven all private institutional alternatives out of business.
If the above, to you, is “choice”, then what would be your definition of compulsory? Does it come in a bottle labeled, “Drink me”?
Try putting down the remote, getting off your couch, taking a shower, shaving, brushing your teeth, pulling your hair back in a ponytail, putting on some clean clothes (no...not the vest that says FTW on the back), making an appointment at your local school and talk to the prinicpal about volunteering to read to the kids.
Oh, by the way, any luck getting that "neighborhood" school your neighborhood was asking for? I don't understand it...the public school system uses mobile homes for classrooms...one of those would fit right nice in your trailerpark.
Well....I suppose it is some form of “choice”. There is the choice of being under police threat to use the government schools, or being under police threat to ransom a child by paying jizya in the form of private tuition or homeschool expenses. Some “choice”!
But...As I pointed out private institutional schooling ( even if one is willing to pay the jizya or ransom) does not exist. The price-fixing practices of the the compulsory government education cartel has driven them out of business.
Smell the freedom, peasant!
Faux Conservatives: IT's NOT Welfare When WE Do it!
The entire post was one huge strawman. What? Do you expect me to burn down a strawman argument of your creation?
Sitting here laughing and laughing! This is why I **love** Free Republic!
Okay, I will try this one more time.
We are compelled to enroll our children in school at 5. WE MUST DO IT BY FORCE OF LAW>
When my son turns 5 I MUST enroll him in a school. I do not have a choice in enrolling him in a school. I did have a choice in which school to enroll him. I chose homeschool.
I MUST keep him enrolled in school until he turns 17. I DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE IN THIS.
The state can COMPEL me to place him in PUBLIC school if I fail to meet THEIR requirements. I will not have a choice. If he gets below the 50th percentile on his standardized test for two years in a row, he will be forced to attend public school. What do they do with public schoolers that score below the 50th percentile? NOTHING. What do they do with MY son in PUBLIC school when he scores below the 5oth percentile? NOTHING. Do they let him return home? NO. If I do not inform the school that he will be homeschooling and provide a plan of instruction they will force me to put him in public school.
The state gives us a couple of choices with alot of strings attached and you think we are free to direct the upbringing and education of our children. Sad!!
I get it.
If this is **proof** that there is no force, then why is Halifax, NC, considering “jail” time? Let's see in the following paragraph people do not wind up in front of judges, in court, and in jail, without armed police being involved in some capacity ( directly or indirectly) .
Wow! You are a conservative? Really?
“Chief District Court Judge Brenda Branch has ruled that Halifax County (NC) parents are going to be held accountable for their children’s school attendance — and that could mean jail if they are not deemed to have made an effort to promote school attendance, writes the Daily Herald.”
Lol! Read the last line of my post #48. Says the same thing but your post was funny.
What part of voluntary do you not understand?
I made a choice to accept the requirements of the school she attends, one of those requirements is maximum attendance. No different than when I attended Catholic school back in the ‘60s and ‘70s.........and no different than when you attended school or homeschooled your own children. You had a choice, and if I remember correctly utilized it on occasion when it suited you.
You don’t like public schools (except when they served your personal needs) and that is your right and we all know it. I don’t like all public schools, I chose to move rather than enroll my child in one that was the pits. This is all well known, as is your repetitive copy/paste posts of useless BS.
The public school system should be dismantled.
******************************
Hilarious, but incorrect.
Go back and choose not to enroll your daughter in public school and see how ‘free’ you are to make that decision. You have given the state so much control of your life that you don’t even realize when you don’t have a choice.
I did not want to start doing formal school with my son at 5 years old but the state forced me to. He was not ready but I had to prove to the state that I was doing it or they would have put him in public school. How can you call any of that voluntary?
Let's call this what it is. It is Sophie's Choice. You had the choice to cooperate with the government or face police, court, and prison action. You had the choice to **ransom** your child by paying extra ( above your usual police compelled school taxes) from the godless and socialist schools. You had the choice to pay jizya.
Honestly, in the upside down world of some conservative’s minds, “choice” is pulled out of the Mad Hatter's hat.
You are WAY out of line. The personal attack is too far. Why insult him personally because he doesn’t like paying for other people’s children to go to school while paying out of his pocket to school his own children? I don’t like it either.
How does reading to the kids at a government school make then not godless or not socialist, or not a First Amendment abomination?
Huh?
By the way do you think the principal would allow me to read the bible to the kids, or would he have me hauled out and a restraining order placed to keep me 100 yards from the prison ( oops! “school”)?
I know you meant the “trailerpark” comment to be a personal insult, but some of my cub scouts live in trailers and they come from the nicest families imaginable.
ping to 57
Glad to know you don’t feel attacked, as I did not attack homeschoolers at all.
I am still waiting on an apology from backwoods-engineer for the out of line accusation.
However, I don’t expect to receive one, as it seems many folks that seek to promote homeschooling only try to do it with attacks on those who choose a different means of educating their children.
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.