[Gondring]

Some of her students' parents are truly awful ... to the point where you begin to wonder if it's not better for the kid to for the gov't to take them away and put 'em someplace safe.

And there are legitimate legal procedures in place for such things, to provide citizens protection from arbitrary State power and abuse.

But at the muzzle of a gun, we are forced to pay taxes to support a school system that can arbitrarily decide by fiat that a kid needs to go to the psych ward over the parent? Yikes...what a system. Have FReepers gone so far left as to really support such an idea?

[r9etb]

But at the muzzle of a gun, we are forced to pay taxes to support a school system that can arbitrarily decide by fiat that a kid needs to go to the psych ward over the parent? Yikes...what a system. Have FReepers gone so far left as to really support such an idea?

Considering that this is quite an unusual case, and seeing as how there are, as you say, "legitimate legal procedures in place," I'd say that you've engaged in a bit of hyperbolic excess with this comment.

The folks at this school may well have screwed the pooch. Or not: as is apparently ALWAYS the case with stories like this, the real facts are probably not being reported.

[wintertime]

But at the muzzle of a gun, we are forced to pay taxes to support a school system that can arbitrarily decide by fiat that a kid needs to go to the psych ward over the parent? Yikes...what a system. Have FReepers gone so far left as to really support such an idea?

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Exactly!

I doubt that a private school could get away with treating a child like this.

Solution: Get rid of the government schools. We need a completely private system of K-12 education.