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Homeschooler's neighbor sparks social services case
WorldNetDaily ^ | Jan 20, 2013 | Alyssa Farah

Posted on 01/20/2013 9:49:27 AM PST by wesagain

A Colorado homeschooling mother has won a social-services case sparked by a neighbor’s complaint about the family that escalated when a social worker did a “drive-by” and concluded they were planning to flee.

A neighbor of the single mother, whose identity has been withheld to protect her family’s privacy, tipped off social services that the mother had been homeschooling several children, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association.

When an investigator arrived at her door in the fall of 2011, the mother immediately contacted the HSLDA, the nation’s premiere legal defense fund dedicated to parents’ right to home educate.

The mother was instructed by HSLDA attorney Mike Donnelly to ask the social worker to leave, and the social worker complied. But this was only the beginning of the mother’s ordeal.

The social worker did not close the case and continued to investigate the mother’s right to homeschool on the grounds that some of her children have learning disabilities that public schools would be better suited to handle.

Donnelly argued against social services’ assertion that a traditional school setting is better equipped to meet the needs of special-needs children.

“Many families homeschool their children who have learning disabilities because they find that the children’s needs are better met in a one-on-one homeschool .............

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: indoctrination; littleredschoolhouse; parentalrights; teachersunion
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From the gestapo......"Things took a turn for the worse when the social worker drove by the home and erroneously concluded that the family was attempting to the flee the state. Social services obtained a verbal order from the court to take the woman’s children into state custody pending a full investigation."
1 posted on 01/20/2013 9:49:35 AM PST by wesagain
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To: wesagain

Idiocy, simple idiocy.

Social service agencies have FAR too much power that needs to be curbed, drastically, if not done away with altogether and started from scratch.


2 posted on 01/20/2013 9:51:59 AM PST by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: wesagain

Social workers ... hmmmm ... that is a fine profession <sarc


3 posted on 01/20/2013 9:55:25 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe)
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To: wesagain

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read about the “verbal order” to remove someone’s children from their home. Where is the signed Search Warrant? Does anyone know where in Colorado this happened?


4 posted on 01/20/2013 9:56:15 AM PST by Sioux-san
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To: wesagain

Since it is legal to home school in Colorado, there should have never been an issue.
I say the busy-body neighbor lied to cps.


5 posted on 01/20/2013 10:01:06 AM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: Sioux-san

It’s the federal Safe Families Act, not a criminal case. When they call it the “prosecutor” it is still not a criminal case. It is a huge, huge problem, because, for the most part, these “credentials” of “MSW” and other assorted initials possessed by these “social workers” represent no real accomplishments or expertise when it comes to families, it is just a huge welfare program giving unqualified people state “jobs” to represent the states’ parental interests in having the children be safe.

Oh, and if you are not a liberal Democrat, you can’t possibly qualify to do the work.


6 posted on 01/20/2013 10:03:54 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: wesagain
THIIIISSSSSS-s--sssss.....
............IS VERRRY DANGED SKEEERYYYY

Social services obtained...
....A VERBAL ORDER (?!?!???) from the court to take the woman’s children into state custody
.... pending a full investigation.

Where is the greater context of the 4th Amendment....
....If you can't be served /review/ contest a written warrant or complaint...

...BEFORE YOU TAKE SOMEONE'S CHILD INTO STATE CUSTODY.!!!!!

I can see a well-prepared parent/ family choosing to defend their home, their rights, and THEIR CHILD against this type of seizure on "verbal court order"....

FR Legal Eagles.... please enlighten & advise...

Sheeeeshhh...

Just wonderin'

7 posted on 01/20/2013 10:08:56 AM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: wesagain

“neighbor of the single mother, whose identity has been withheld to protect her family’s privacy”

Its ok to spy on and rat out your neighbor, but then have the nerve to demand your OWN privacy???


8 posted on 01/20/2013 10:10:39 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: yldstrk
People become surety for the debt by a number of different ways. One way is by a Birth Certificate when the baby's footprint is placed thereon before it touches the land. The certificate is recorded at a County Recorder, then sent to a Secretary of State which sends it to the Bureau of Census of the Commerce Department. This process converts a man's life, labor, and property to an asset of the US government when this person receives a benefit from the government such as a drivers license, food stamps, free mail delivery, etc. This person becomes a fictional persona in commerce. The Birth Certificate is an unrevealed "Trust Instrument" originally designed for the children of the newly freed black slaves after the 14th Amendment. The US has the ability to tax and regulate commerce.

http://www.usavsus.info/

9 posted on 01/20/2013 10:12:11 AM PST by B4Ranch (When democracy turns to tyranny, we still get to vote. We just won't use voting booths to do it.)
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To: wesagain

Family and Children services is the only government entity that is not bound by the constitution.


10 posted on 01/20/2013 10:28:30 AM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: B4Ranch

I believe this is also the same process implied for registration of a vehicle. Its a title transfer via trust instrument. So legally we are all sold into servitude by our parents at birth. At gunpoint I might add.

The question to ask is how does someone op out of this contract?


11 posted on 01/20/2013 10:31:22 AM PST by PJammers (I can't help it... It's my idiom!)
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To: metmom

Ping.


12 posted on 01/20/2013 10:35:40 AM PST by upchuck (America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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“This victory is important for all homeschooling parents, because it strengthens the idea that all children have the right to be homeschooled and the need for HSLDA,”

So....NOW can the nosey busy-body neighbor be identified?

13 posted on 01/20/2013 10:42:19 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Humans have eliminated natural selection. Morons are now a protected species. They breed and vote.)
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To: wesagain

home schooling is legal... flee the state? you mean .. move?


14 posted on 01/20/2013 10:51:18 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: wesagain

“When an investigator arrived at her door in the fall of 2011, the mother immediately contacted the HSLDA, the nation’s premiere legal defense fund dedicated to parents’ right to home educate.”

I love HSLDA, but this babe’s journalism is counterproductive - it sounds just like the New York Times gushing about Stalin, in the 1930s and 1940s.

She could just write: “...HSLDA, an organization that works to support homeschoolers...”

Anyway...no big deal.


15 posted on 01/20/2013 11:01:00 AM PST by BobL
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To: autumnraine
Family and Children services is the only government entity that is not bound by the constitution.

Ummm... are any government agencies bound by the Constitution?

16 posted on 01/20/2013 11:04:54 AM PST by Standing Wolf
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To: PJammers

Declare yourself sovereign and refuse to participate in their system. It’s a time consuming issue that many don’t wish to learn about.


17 posted on 01/20/2013 11:05:27 AM PST by B4Ranch (When democracy turns to tyranny, we still get to vote. We just won't use voting booths to do it.)
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To: PJammers
how does someone op out of this contract?

Ask Obama.

18 posted on 01/20/2013 11:12:30 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month)
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To: BobL
I love HSLDA, but this babe’s journalism is counterproductive - it sounds just like the New York Times gushing about Stalin, in the 1930s and 1940s.

Noting counterproductive about it in the least.........

She could just write: “...HSLDA, an organization that works to support homeschoolers...”

Yes, she could - but THAT would be counterproductive.

This was is direct, and intentional, hit on HSLDA specifically and homeschoolers in general. While I do not appreciate how those of us who have kids in public school or work in them are often treated around here by some homeschoolers, even we know a direct attack when we see one. And this definitely fits in that category.

19 posted on 01/20/2013 11:16:51 AM PST by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: ConservativeInPA
Social workers...

I've been known to remark that in the US we have both Social Democrats (communists) and National Socialists (Nazis).

A prime example of the latter are the evil DHHS witches.

20 posted on 01/20/2013 11:19:53 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month)
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