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 ...
I was about to say that it was funny that the local FR teacher’s union hadn’t shown up with pitchforks and torches as they do for most homeschooling issue threads.
But the victim card is always a weapon of last resort.
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Does a social worker have any incentive to reduce their workloads?
What in heaven’s name are you talking about? I clearly stated this was a direct and intentional it piece (based on the journalist’s choice of words) against homescooling.
I don’t play the victim card, in fact I was the first person to comment on this thread and my only pitchforks in that post were for social workers...........
“This was is direct, and intentional, hit on HSLDA specifically and homeschoolers in general.
You’re confusing me. Her last name is Farah...she’s got to be the daughter of the founder of WND...a legendary website.
I think that she was trying to play-up HSDLA...which is not necessary - as everyone that has anything to do with home schooling knows who they are. I’m just saying that it looks tacky.
And they are using taxpayers money to do this.
You could be right, but “tacky” was not how I took it, nor did I take it as playing up to HSDLA. I thought the choice of wording was over the top and, obviously, could be taken the wrong way.
I could very well be wrong, and I truly hope you are correct, but over time I have just read far too many hit pieces on HSLDA and home schoolers and I’m a cynic, so it is possible I saw a hit where there wasn’t one.
“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???
“...the local FR teacher’s union”
HYSTERICAL!!!
You wouldn’t be, by any chance, referring to the “Amalgamated Teachers Local” ‘FRcom’” per chance. They are a nasty bunch and will do all they can to get you EXPELLED from this site if you say something as evil as kids don’t do quite as well in public schools in the US as in Singapore (i.e., where teachers are held accountable).
I said exactly what I meant, and you understood fully what I said. Ping your harpies if you wish, your game is boring.
If not for her last name, I might agree (Farah is not a common name...at least for non-terrorists). But I just think she was being overly supportive.
I will stand corrected, then. No harm, no foul.
As I said, I’’m a cynic and anymore it is very easy to read more into something because so many groups and organizations created solely to protects rights are under constant attack, usually for made up reasons.
Aw, someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
-— “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 ——
Having a mildly autistic daghter who has been schooled and homeschooled, I can confirm this. No school has the resources for one-on-one instruction, or can provide a familiy’s love, fancy IEPs notwithstanding.
Gordon Kahl, is that you?
Oh, well played. Do share your victory with your coven.
“I will stand corrected, then. No harm, no foul...as I said, I’’m a cynic...”
Very fair. Being a cynic today is PERFECTLY UNDERSTANDABLE, considering what we have to deal with.
This is why homeschoolers can get a little... testy around here in education threads.
Not too many public school parents have been threatened with jail, kidnapping of their children by the state, loss of parental rights, for the great crime of teaching their children.
Many, many homeschoolers, myself included, have been so threatened. Homeschoolers must often deal, in person, under threat of sanction, with the jackals of public education.
Homeschoolers deserve, at minimum, one order of magnitude of leeway in terms of rhetorical excess when discussing educational issues with non-homeschoolers.
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