Posted on 03/09/2019 10:27:39 AM PST by gattaca
As homeschooling rapidly grows, so too are state-level efforts to "oversee" families.
Oregon, Washington state, and even Iowa are trailblazing another assault on constitutionally protected individual rights. The state legislature in Oregon is currently mulling over a bill that “directs Oregon Health Authority to study home visiting by licensed health care providers.” The bill contends that home visits are “necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety.”
There’s a similar scheme being conjured up in Washington. In January, Gov. Jay Inslee (now a 2020 Democrat presidential contender) declared: “My budget would also offer universal home visits. This gives every new parent the opportunity to get a visit from a nurse during the first few weeks back home with their newborn to share important information and build confidence.”
“Iowa Democrats are also attempting to gain oversight of families, specifically those of homeschoolers,” The Resurgent’s James Silberman reports. “IA HF272 would mandate quarterly ‘health and safety visits’ to homeschool families by school district officials. The bill states that these visits would be with the consent of the parents but also specifies that parents can be overridden if a judge determines there is probable cause for home inspection.”
PJ Media columnist Paula Bolyard astutely observes, “As someone who has been involved in the homeschooling movement for more than 20 years, I have seen many attempts to increase the oversight of children taught at home by requiring home visits by a teacher or social worker. … Anytime a state or locality has tried to draft legislation requiring home visits for homeschooled children, the immediate response has always been, ‘What are they going to do next, require inspections for children from birth until they enter school?’ The answer to that, of course, is yes. That has been the plan all along.”
This is statism, pure and simple. The Daily Signal this week relayed the story of a parent who said, “I was shocked when my 13-year-old daughter told me she was really my transgender son.” The parent added, “Where did she get the idea she was transgender? From a school presentation.”
This is precisely why more and more families are pulling their kids from public schooling and increasingly homeschooling. And while their reasons for doing so are more than justified, statists are ensuring that no age and no home is off limits when it comes to regulating thoughtcrimes.
They’ve got to target children.
EVIL, EVIL, EVIL. If they are going to force this on a Federal level, there are states that won’t comply.
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I have no problem with this. Just as long as the “visitor” first gets a warrant signed by a judge. Because otherwise the Fourth Amendment applies.
No warrant, no “home visit”.
Laws can forbid or mandate ACTIONS, not thoughts. Yet they do it. They get away with it.
You WILL think what the state wants you to think, or it’s to reeducation camp with you.
“Oregon, Washington state, and even Iowa are trailblazing another assault on constitutionally protected individual rights.”
The sheeple will sit back and do nothing until it is too late.
Where is ‘probable cause’?
Will simply homeschooling be probable cause now?
And, this from the same people who call it “brainwashing” for religious people to bring up their children in their faith. They can indoctrinate your children to believe that they are homosexual or “transgender”, but the childrens’ own parents shouldn’t be allowed to raise them in their own faith.
Oregon voters are not sitting back and doing nothing!
Dumbass Oregon voters have voted this crap and a whole lot more in.
The “probable cause” would be evidence that the kids were being mistreated. And that would include homeschooled kids not really being taught.
But that evidence would have to be strong enough to obtain a warrant from a judge. Unfortunately, it seems like these states want home inspections “just because”.
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Yes, just as the Hitler regime and communists.
“The “probable cause” would be evidence that the kids were being mistreated. And that would include homeschooled kids not really being taught.”
There are at least 3 public schools within 10m of my house that got an ‘F’ from the state DOE. Are we going to investigate those kids not being taught too?
What is ‘not really being taught’?
Lots of lefties would include ‘climate change denial’ and ‘Christian morality’ in the ‘not being taught’ category.
“The sheeple will sit back and do nothing until it is too late.”
I am in WA. Tell me exactly what I should do.
I would think moving to America would be a good thing
I’m in eastern WA. It is America and is seen by libs in Seattle and Olympia as redneck flyover country.
I understand that.
But like FReepers in red California and New York, things are going to get much worse for you. They will never get better.
The 16 sheriffs over here who refuse to enforce the new gun law are giving us hope, at least on that issue. Also, the school districts tend to ignore or downplay lib stuff coming out of Olympia. Things stay more conservative over here in rural eastern WA than they do in big cities, even in most so-called conservative states.
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