Posted on 03/29/2012 5:12:23 AM PDT by Gennie
'Relocating' children
March 29, 2012
It's 11AM. Do you know where your children are? Hundreds of Oklahoma kids carted away from school grounds without parental consent or knowledge.
Jason McNew
Recently, there has been a disturbing nation-wide trend of parental rights being trampled upon by public school officials, from bag-lunch inspections to electronic bracelets being used to spy on overweight kids. This week brings another example of complete disregard for parental rights, this time from Grove High School in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
Grove High School transported 699 kids away from school property without first notifying parents of their intent to do so, nor obtaining the parents consent. Parents were only told, by way of this nondescript robo-call, that there would be a "drill":
"This call is to inform you that Grove Public Schools will be conducting an emergency exercise on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. The drill's purpose is to extend the school's preparedness in the event of a real emergency. Please be aware, this is only a drill. Thanks and have a good evening."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The “public school” is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The “public school” is better understood as the “government school collective”.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is communist.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves your children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children like you can.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
It is hypocritical for you to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. And your children will know it.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!
Especially not with your own children.
I disagree. A good public school, and there are many, can teach French, German, Spanish, and perhaps even Russian and Chinese better than most of us can. A good public school can teach science better than most of us even know so many different fields of science, writing better than we can teach it, and math beyond what most adults remember or perhaps ever learned. What it cannot do is teach values, and parents need to talk with their public (or private) school kids daily and correct or clarify any moral lessons that the schools messed up (whether intentionally or inadvertently). There is a lot of good in public schools, although I wish more conservatives would teach there and help them to resist liberal, anti-Christian, pro-socialism values lessons.
>>>There is a lot of good in public schools, although I wish more conservatives would teach there and help them to resist liberal, anti-Christian, pro-socialism values lessons.>>>
Your last sentence proves why children should be HOME SCHOOLED.
Oh, on the contrary, it DOES teach values. Worldly, secular, atheist, State worshipping (Nietzschian) values.
No information is presented in a values-neutral vacuum.
I think the key here is with out parental notification. I remember in the fifties when I was in school we had city wide disaster (they were actually nuclear) drills where we would practise evacuating everyone. These were the hot days of the cold war and we were very near a possible ground zero. It was almost as good as a snow day but not quite. Because everyone was involved parents knew a) their children would be sent to a particular location and b) they had to show up at a particular location as well. These didn’t happen all that often but they were a stark reminder of the risks involved in living.
I’m sorry, but what kind of drill is this? What kind of emergency allows enough time to arrange bus transportation, but not enough time to notify parents?
Nothing to see here folks move along, just practicing for when there is martial law
If public schools stopped at those lessons, you’d have a point. Unfortunately, too many do teach values—the subversive kind.
Also, if a homeschool parent relies solely on his/her knowledge of a subject IOT teach, then that parent will fail. There are many, MANY terrific resources to draw upon that can teach your child beyond your expertise in a given field.
If public schools stopped at those lessons, you’d have a point. Unfortunately, too many do teach values—the subversive kind.
Also, if a homeschool parent relies solely on his/her knowledge of a subject IOT teach, then that parent will fail. There are many, MANY terrific resources to draw upon that can teach your child beyond your expertise in a given field.
That was my question. Whenever my son travels away from his school on sponsored events, I always have to sign a permission form. Given that there was no actual emergency in progress, this sounds like kidnapping.
IMO, publics schools’ PRIMARY PURPOSE today is to teach values, to indoctrinate children into the leftist worldview.
This was one of the goals of the communists from the 50’s.
Take over the education system. And they have.
Public schools...damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
Such deviation from the glorious socialist paradigm will not be tolerated !
Get with the program, comrade !
The irony of this discussion is that I have to fill out a detailed list of “allowed to pick up my kid” trusted individuals with the school and daycare. I get 3, maybe 4, spots for that category because I must enter the person’s name, address and phone number. I’ve had to call the school before to say that someone else like my brother can pick them up because a grandparent isn’t available. And they must call me and get my permission if someone other than that list is there to pick them up AND have to call me if the kid has to go to an ER.
Yet a stranger could do so under this “drill”, without telling me and without me knowing who. Anyone claiming to be a bureaucrat could take kids and do anything.
Waving a badge and claiming official business has more privileges than family members I authorize - or the parents themselves.
They CANNOT be allowed to take kids from where I expect them to be without my consent, much less my knowledge.
The worst daycare I ever used CALLED me when there was a fire and they couldn’t go to the planned evacuation point - so the kids were across the street instead of next door. But the public school claims the right to cart kids in buses, not tell anyone where and not have the right to say where?
Just out of curiosity, what was the highest level of mathematics that you ever took and passed?
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Remember the government now considers themselves “co-parents”.
Public schools can’t even teach English properly, no way it takes that long.
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