[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

[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.

[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?

[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/

[CyberCowboy777]

Tyranny Ping

[CyberCowboy777]

Ping

[BureaucratusMaximus]

"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."

Ah! The sweet smell of public education. Last time I checked, I have legal custody of my child; and I will raise him and educate him the way I see fit. Aside from that basic fact, through the involuntary confiscation of my income in the form of taxation for the funding and existance of DSS and public education, I would conclude that I have more of a say than this hitler-wannabie _itch and all her uncaring, communist bureaucrats! Kudos to this family for having the gnads to stand up for principle, freedom, and common sense in parenting.

[CyberCowboy777]

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

- C.S. Lewis

[Dan from Michigan]

DSS...
The last two letters there fit perfectly. SS.

[OXENinFLA]

WTF..........How does DSS have legal custudy of them?

[moyden2000]

Liberals are evil.

[LiteKeeper]

Homeschool SPOTREP

[TaxRelief]

The crux of the problem:

Federal Incentives Compromise Social Workers' Objectivity

[DoughtyOne]

Isn't everyone just thrilled that Mass cares for the children? Makes you wonder what children did be fore states tried to wrestle control of them from their parents.

I'd rather see the state government disolved than give it control of children. And that goes doubly for the state school system. "Here, let me drug your children and pump them full of socialist PC nonsense."