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 .............
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I didn't know where to begin answering him. It was a moment before I could think to close my mouth.
what?
the identity of the “reporter” is protected by confidentiality statutes.
Dear sitetest,
I understand a little testy, and have been giving leeway toward homes schoolers on these threads for years, as have most of the others who have been called (at various times) evil, child abusers, witches, harpies, and a host of other inflammatory names (I only listed the nicer ones.) Heaven forbid, however we are to be granted even the slightest bit of common courtesy in return.
It has gone beyond time where a bit of respect should have been granted in return. For pete’s sake, I was attacked on this thread, WHILE I was defending the home schoolers. I’m sorry to say, but there seems to be a contingent of alleged home school supporters on FR that are hell bent on giving the rest of you a really bad name. I don’t know when open season on those of us with ties to public schools began, but it sure is obvious there are some here who fell free to call others anything they so choose and to make up any kind of facts and figures without proof of any of it.
Of course many of them are fairly new to this site and thus should be given a bit of a chance to understand how discourse and discussion take place - but they have all been here long enough to understand rules of common courtesy - something extremely lacking in the faction to which I refer.
While it is unfortunate you have had to deal with such jackals in public education in your life, I have yet to see any of them on these threads - the only jackals I have seen on these threads come from your side -— which is not good for what otherwise is a very worthy cause.
Have a peasant afternoon. (GO RAVENS)
Listen, it is bad, very bad. When the social workers from children’s services come to take the kids, the kids are screaming, the parents are crying, and the worst part is that the kids can easily end up in foster care that is abusive. If there is a family friend or grandparent that can get there asap, children’s services may do a kinship placement. Then there is a 72 hour meeting, then there is a hearing a “protective custody” hearing where often the legal custody of the children is transferred to the state for “appropriate placement” It is all very quick and technical and you have to get an attorney that is familiar with it or you may be in deep trouble.
The parent then has to do EVERYTHING the social services agency demands, whether it is a hair test for drug use, a psychological evaluation (which you can easily pass if you act calm and not emotional), “parenting” classes, intensive in home services, nutrition classes, and show up to all your court dates, act calm.
Always let the social services into your house, which should have a bed for every child, (even if you do the family bed thing) tons of food in the cupboards and fridge, toys, books, tables, paper and colored pencils, you get the drift.
The house has to have running utilities, clean sheets and pillows, no dog poop on the floor, no evidence of illegal drug use and be reasonably neat and clean.
once all this is checked out, you will be on your way shortly.
I was contacted by a clever, concerned neighbor about me homeschooling my son.
He is a liberal lawyer and called me under the pretext of having a friend who was thinking about homeschooling. He had questioned my son about be out of herdschool, walking the dog earlier in the week.
The first thing I told him was to have his “friend” become a member of the Homeschool’s defense lawyers group so in case anyone decided to harrass them, they would be protected.
It was a short conversation.
If someone wants an entire lowdown on a similar case from Omaha, NE, freep mail me. Invasive big govt, tried to take my grandchildren in 2008.
This goes on everyday and most folks are scared to death to talk about it publicly for fear they will lose their children faster. A case worker is allowed by law TO LIE to parents. I heard a judge say this.
The corporate government system requires:
Registration of babies, cars, real estate and guns.
Means to bring them into the corporate registrar.
Then becomes the property of the corporate government, and that is why they can take them at any time.
How does a single mom support herself without a job?
I do not agree with your assessment. People are not property. You seem bright. Maybe you should go to law school and then you could help fight the battle. The word and terms you are using make little sense.
Sara. I just love that expression! Herdschool! Wonderful!
( Sitting here chuckling!) :-)
Which is why homeschooling threatens much more than teacher's unions' bread and butter. You never really own anything the government can repossess with the stroke of a pen, and that ends up being everyfhing you have, including your life and your children.
The State intends to be the head of your family, you're just there to maintain the rookery and foot the bill.
If you let people teach themselves, and defend themselves, the next thing you know they'll want to govern themselves. The State has to degrade and defame these rights until they have indoctrinated the public sufficiently that it is in their best interests to take them away.
Pjammers, B4Ranch
This is sovereign citizen information, am I correct?
And where did you find it?
Yldstrk,
FRmail incoming!
So apparently parents have the right to make life choices for their children... but only those choices that government thinks are optimal... and coincidentally, that seems to be making the choice that helps the government programs. Hmmmm.
Maybe she works from home? My sister writes a blog an designs websites from home. She did the homeschool for a while in Colorado but then her daughter insisted she wanted to go to school. So now she goes to school.
I did it working evenings.
“My sister writes a blog an designs websites from home.”
Pray, how much did she make from doing that?
” I did it working evenings.”
Did you just leave the kids alone?
I had babysitters until the oldest was a teenager.
A woman I worked with made over 30K last year doing that. She writes three blogs that average over 10k a year in advertising. One is about being a new mother, the other is a "writers blog", and the third is an educational assistance combination website and blog.
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