Posted on 06/06/2002 9:40:05 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
The Davis* family owns and operates a farm in Buffalo County, Wisconsin. For the last two years they have home schooled their two children in addition to teaching them all the tasks necessary to run a farm. Unfortunately, a relative did not like their home schooling and turned them into Health and Human Services even though the family was in full compliance with the law.
The social worker stopped by when they were not home and left a letter requesting to meet with them. The family refused. The social worker followed up with a second letter, requesting a meeting, but this time including a copy of the allegations. The family immediately contacted HSLDA.
Upon analyzing the allegations and realizing that there was no identifiable child abuse allegations, HSLDA advised the family not to cooperate. Some of the absurd allegations, as typed out with various misspellings and typos by the tipster included:
"Neither parent has any education beyond high school. The parents refuse to send one of their children to summer school. Both parents feel that one and a half hours of schooling per day is sufficient.
The tipster continued, "They recently purchased [satellite television] so the boys could learn from the History Channel and one of the boys cuts his own hair so he can see."
Finally, in addition to the several false allegations, the tipster indicated that "each child gets a new toy every week that the mother shops and the father's number one priority is money-they are not financially poor." The tipster revealed his prejudice very clearly at the end of the letter by stating: "Wisconsin needs stricter laws regarding home schooling. Compared to Minnesota." Minnesota has a much more complicated home school law than Wisconsin.
Since the family was not required to cooperate, they chose not to do so. Getting no where with the family, the social worker terminated her investigation having no real evidence of abuse.
*Name changed to protect the family's privacy.
Give it up for security! Liberty is secondary, NOT.
The tipster not only employs run-on sentences, but the parts of the run-on aren't even related to one another.
It was probably written by the social worker from a telephone conversation.
The idiots lose this one......Huzzah!!
If only all bureaucrats were as accommodating.
Don't you believe it!!! The government employee is, by definition, a lazy jerk, unable to make it in the real world when he/she can get adequate pay, fantastic benefits and easy work leeching off the public. Here, the social worker's performance is measured by how many bad guys she catches, not by how many files she opens then closes. Thsi family may not have been charged NOW, but their name is on a list. The family has something to hide (else, why wouldn't they have cooperated), and if there is ever another claim, this charge will be cumulative and used as proof that since there is so much smoke, there must be fire. NEVER assume a government employee's motivations are benign!
It's just like with everything else in life, you have to pick and choose. Not every show on that network is to my liking, but then again, if I don't like a show, I don't watch.
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