It’s another means to break up the family.
I’ve been wondering why the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress have been mostly mum about homeschooling. I think an easy back door to controlling one’s children is through the doctor’s visit. I took my third child in for his 5-year-old shots for sports, etc., and I felt myself feeling angry that soon the government will have access to our health information. It made me resent and distrust the doctor. I turned down a urinalysis because the nurse had just let my son go to the potty and laughed at him when he mentioned ‘peeing in a cup’. Five minutes later, when the lady doctor asked for a urinalysis, I said ‘tough luck!’. If I had known it was required, I would have had my son do it at the point he asked the nurse to use the restroom. I don’t tolerate them wasting my time very well. (They wanted me to return at a later date with the sample - NO). I had to argue with the doctor about the nurse’s incompetence, and it got nasty! (And I am a very meek person, but I’d had enough). My son is perfectly healthy, anyway.
I am NOT a paranoid person. I am not anti-shots, etc. But having lived through 18 years of public school, I’m well aware of how choices are nearly completely stripped away from parents, and how a child’s privacy is completely given over to the state. I remember physicals in middle school that I shouldn’t have been subjected to, etc. My parents didn’t even sign a permission slip.
Just a minor rant.
“Dr.” George McGovern blew it with the “food pyramid”. Now there is a possibility that there are other reasons for obesity that we don’t yet understand.
http://www.physorg.com/news198518697.html
I know what you mean! I found out from my daughter-in-law that doctors are required to ask all kinds of intrusive questions at well child visits. I’m glad you stood up for yourself.
We started homeschooling in the 80s when it was still somewhat of a novelty, and we had a neighbor turn us in because our kids were not in school. I can’t tell you how scared I was when the truant officer showed up at our door. It turned out OK, but knowing that these people would be more than happy to take my kids away from me made me distrust government completely. The phrase “the banality of evil” comes to mind.
Absolutely. Totalitarian regimes always attempt to wrest children away from their parents. That way they can be thoroughly indoctrinated by those in power.