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

Metrowest Daily ^ | 6/13/03 | Beecher

[Cathryn Crawford]

I've had twenty years (my whole life) of experience dealing with DSS (or CPS). I've seen it all.

The entire system needs to be figuratively nuked and built from scratch.

I can't even begin to express the digust I feel for this particular governmental agency. It is, in my opinion, the worst of the worse.

Statist and socialistic doesn't even begin. Try liars and hypocrites, too...among other things. One day, when I can do so without giving myself an ulcer, I'll write about my experiences. At this point it would burn up the screen.

[RightWhale]

Or just skip right to the State Hatchery.

[Paul C. Jesup]

I said it before and I will say it again. We MUST imprison the control-freaks or the control-freak will imprison US.

[Lady Eileen]

I'd say the blindfolds need to come down. Children are being hurt in this darkness.

Here Here!

[Cathryn Crawford]

"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."

Bullshit!

[Elsie]

It's not worth it to die on that hill.

Ok then.. what WOULD you die for?

[spokanite]

LOL! I don't even think it was submitted the "first" time around. But, with the threats of my parents and the fear of God, I took the SAT once again and scored a 1241. Then I was a college dropout! :-)

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

OMG!!! Is that a PITBULL in that picture???

Not a pitbull - looks more like the dog in "My Three Sons".

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

It looks kind of fluffy for a pit bull ... some kind of spaniel or pointer mix?

Great minds think alike. See my post above ;-).

[Tax-chick]

I'm not a dog expert, but that animal has a lick-you-to-death look.

[Lady Eileen]

nmh: Just what is it that these kids KNOW that can't be measured by a test?

dead: Perhaps they’ve been taught proper disdain for communism and tyranny.

Good answer.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

My dad used to call our dog "vicious beast" in jest. She was so friendly she'd follow just about anybody who came to our house out the door. :-) And yes, she'd lick you all the time if you'd let her.

[ladylib]

They should train the dog to be a little more aggressive -- to bite officious, arrogant government-lackey social workers on the @$$. This family really should get a nasty pitbull.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Oh...... and one more thing. When our dog would do something bad, my dad would talk to her in a gruff voice and threaten to turn her into "roast beast" (i.e. line from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas).

[Lady Eileen]

I may call the HSLDA about this one.

Did you call HSLDA yet?

[Tench_Coxe]

"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."

[Robert_Paulson2]

The cost of filing the papers? Less than $100...

The effect of four hundred of these being filed in various state across the continent? priceless...

[gitmo]

The problem is "free" Federal money going to the states for education. We should halt all money going from the US government to the states for education. Then these state confiscations of children for the bounty money will stop.

Why should the Feds take money from the residents of the states so they can send it to the states to "educate" their citizens?

If it COST the states to educate their populace, they might allow parents to actually teach their children.

[gitmo]

Okay, my instructions to the DSS busybody would be this, "I will not discuss the matter with you nor anyone you bring. Please leave my property or I will ask these nice officers to arrest you for trespassing. Good bye and good riddance."

In NC, that would cost you your kids.