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.
Social workers ... hmmmm ... that is a fine profession <sarc
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?
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.
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'
“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???
Family and Children services is the only government entity that is not bound by the constitution.
Ping.
So....NOW can the nosey busy-body neighbor be identified?
home schooling is legal... flee the state? you mean .. move?
“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.
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Does a social worker have any incentive to reduce their workloads?
And they are using taxpayers money to do this.
“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???
-— “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.
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.
How does a single mom support herself without a job?