Home-schooling standoff (MA Liberals try to get state custody for 'abused' home-schooled kids)

Metrowest Daily ^ | 6/13/03 | Beecher

[pabianice]

The Liberals will never, ever give up trying to keep your kids in the public school cesspool (they send their own kids to private school... hello, Ted Kennedy? Hello, John Kerry?...)

[pabianice]

H O W T O C O N T A C T U S

Massachusetts Department of Social Services

Central Office

24 Farnsworth Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02210

(617) 748-2000

Harry Spence, Commissioner

The Department of Social Services (DSS) has 29 Area Offices across Massachusetts.

[CyberCowboy777]

"We have legal custody of the children and we will do with them as we see fit," DSS worker Susan Etscovitz told the Bryants in their Gale Street home. "They are minors and they do what we tell them to do."

Both sides agree that the children are in no way abused mentally, physically, sexually or emotionally, but legal custody of the children was taken from Kim and George Bryant in December 2001. The children will remain under the legal custody of DSS until their 16th birthdays.

The parents have been ruled as unfit because they did not file educational plans or determine a grading system for the children, two criteria of Waltham Public School's home schooling policy.

This is tyranny!

[CyberCowboy777]

When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side, 'I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your decendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing but this new community.

- Adolf Hitler

[freeeee]

Just one of the numerous reasons I permanently moved out of the People's Socialist RepubliK of Taxachusetts.

American liberty might have been born there, but now the only place you'll see it in Mass is under a glass in a museum.

[CyberCowboy777]

Ping

[AAABEST]

My thoughts EXACTLY.

[nmh]

"We do not believe in assessing our children based on a number or letter. Their education process is their personal intellectual property," said Bryant.

Sounds like a nutcase to me. Why wouldn't a homeschooling parent test their kids? Something fishy going on here. Just what is it that these kids KNOW that can't be measured by a test? Furthermore, why should these kids be excemt from testing? Why must they be the exception to the rule?

[ClearCase_guy]

Both sides agree that the children are in no way abused mentally, physically, sexually or emotionally, but legal custody of the children was taken from Kim and George Bryant in December 2001.

Now that the State has custody, I would expect the mental, physical, sexual, and emotion abuse to begin real soon. It's for the Children.

[Bahbah]

Reading this has made me so angry my heart is pounding.

[Notwithstanding]

If you think the state has a right to know what is going on in your kids head, then you have succombed to the mind-numbing of the left.

It is one thing to willingly choose to have the state look after your kids' education.

It is true tyranny for the state to demand such control.

[RightWhale]

We have legal custody of the children

The state has custody of all children in the Fourier commune of Mass. Why don't they simply remove all children at birth and take them to the state nursery?

[ClearCase_guy]

why should these kids be excemt from testing?

Yeah!! Standardized tests might help them learn to spell! What do you think?

Seriously, the parents are fighting for a principle. By what law does the State have final say over the education of children? Don't the parents matter?

[Notwithstanding]

These folks sure do look like nutballs.

[CyberCowboy777]

Why must they be the exception to the rule?

Because the Stat has no place demanding testing on free citizens. The rule must be abolished.

It is a little thing we call self determination, a Liberty thing.

[AAABEST]

George Bryant said he was arrested six years ago, after not attending a meeting that the city contends he was summoned to.

OK let me get this straight, we're arresting people for such high crimes as missing meetings.

WTF?!

>8/

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Why must they be stamped out copies of what some bugeyed socialist monster says they should be?

This is Massachusetts, land of middle school fistf**king classes.

The question is, what the heck are they doing living in that cesspool?

[CyberCowboy777]

city contends he was summoned to

He was summoned by the CITY and the School!

King George....is that you?