[12B]

Sorry Wallace, but that is a bunch of horse hockey. If the parents and the school can't reach an agreement then he should have taken his complaint to the courts where hopefully he could get a lasting, legal opinion in his favor.

The courts are the appropriate venue to make a decision on school policy. The police do not have the time, resources, and authority to make such decisions.

The father WANTED to get arrested to publicize his situation. He VOLUNTARILY refused bail in order to publicize his situation. It was HIS strategy to get arrested so he shouldn't be moaning about it after the fact.

[Wallace T.]

This country, especially "deep blue" states like Massachusetts, has public schools that are more interested in indoctrinating young people into the PC mindframe than in learning. We have a judiciary that sees its role as change agents rather than the administration of justice. Particularly in a place like Massachusetts, what chance does this man have to redress his grievances? The deck is almost as stacked against him as it would have been in the old Soviet Union. Of course, he can place his child in a private school or homeschool him and perhaps he should do so. However, he is no doubt taxed heavily to support a public school system. He and other parents should expect to have their children receive the sort of educational product that public schools, for the most part, provided to a majority of Americans prior to 1960.

I don't blame this father for being militant. Checks and balances are less effective than was the case in the past and the democratic process is mocked by bureaucrats, judges, and legislators. Civil servants, whether in business suits, uniforms, or casual clothes, have a moral obligation to do right that should be more important than mere obedience to their superiors. Only when Americans in both the public and the private sector cease cooperating with governmental tyranny will this nation end its decades long descent into socialism and moral degradation.