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remember the Supreme court has ruled that schools own the children during school hours.
And schools extend school hours with homework and activities.
If I were parents and grand parents today I would be working to make homeschooling and casual private schools a priority for their families. I would move to low tax areas, and ignore school rules.
Leave the systems totally.
I've been saying for years that public education should be eradicated completely in this country. Government-run "education" is completely incompatible with the basic idea of a free nation.
The Keck family needs to move out of that school district. Then, when out of their reach, the parents should find another educational environment or homeschool HER.
My sister was named after my Dad. Anyway, when it came time to attend school, she would get placed in the boys gym class. Of course the error would be corrected as soon as she showed up for the class. The third year my mom told me to check on my sister to make sure she was in the right gym class. As I peeked into the gym, there she was and looking confused. She didn’t ever speak up for herself — never did. She actually had more fun doing the things boys liked to do, like climbing trees. Anyway, thank God that was years ago — since she became the sweetest, most caring, understanding wife to her husband, her pets, her friends, her children. She didn’t care for frills or the more feminine choices never cared about looking sexy or any of the worldly choices — but a female she was. I miss her so much.
Public schools are an arm of the government. They are financed by extracting money from those who own property. Their purpose is to promote the leftist agenda, especially the part about preventing parents from teaching their kids right and wrong.
“Most parents were outraged.”
While there are compulsory education laws throughout the United States, I don’t know of any that FORCE parents to use public schools, at least not yet.
So the parents here all made a choice, they prioritized ‘keeping up with the Jones’ over the chance for their kids to have a more normal childhood. Parents get to make that choice these days, and it is a CHOICE, as the government education establishment simply WILL NOT allow them to have it both ways (i.e., allowing kids to grow up unmolested and not having to directly pay for them to be educated).
So, really, nothing to bitch about here - it was an expected ‘outcome’ (to borrow some ‘educator’ terminology).
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Congress to the rescue! /sarc
From related threads…
Congress has the express constitutional authority to not only make sure that things like parent’s expectations about what they’re children are taught by state actors are respected, but also that state actors respect constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected freedoms of religious expression and speech in this example.
"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
14th Amendment:
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
H O W E V E R…
We’re still stuck with a worthless Congress left over from the lawless Obama Administration that will predictably not lift a finger to make penal laws to discourage renegade states like California from ignoring voters, local parents in this example, and abridging their constitutionally enumerated protections.
The remedy for constitutionally failed federal and state governments…
All patriots in the nation need to come to the rescue of citizens being oppressed by activist states that ignore constitutionally enumerated protections, California state citizens in this example, by doing the following.
Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJT’s vision for MAGA, now KAG, but will also do the following.
New patriot lawmakers also need to promise to do their duties to guarantee each state a republican form of government and exercise their express 14A powers to make penal laws to discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated protections.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
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