Waltham home-school kids put in DSS custody

Boston Heraqld | Saturday, December 15, 2001 | Ed Hayward

[borntodiefree]

This is EXACTLY what the second ammendment is for. Unfortunate but true.

[bettina0]

The parents fought and they lost. It would have been easier to comply with the homeschooling laws and school districts have wide latitude regarding homeschooling in Massachusetts. I wonder if they had HSLDA represent them. Masschusetts frequently harrasses homeschoolers but HSLDA usually can put a stop to it. I like the idea of boycotting Massachusetts' products and the state itself. I was considering buying vacation property on the Cape, but after reading about Fistgate, difficult homeschooling situations, and a propensity for social services in Massachusetts to snatch away children for no really good reason, I've decided I don't even want to visit there any longer, much less live there. And I've been visiting the Cape for 25 years.

[Hank Kerchief]

Dr. Susan I. Parella's Systemic Goals and Initiatives.

I've encountered the word systemic frequently in discussions of pathologies, as it is defined, "a systemic drug, disease or poison reaches and has an effect on the whole of a body or a plant and not just one part of it." Since this is about government education, I suppose it is a kind of pathology.

PhD is pronounce "fud" and means, "piled higher and deeper" as demonstrated by Dr. Parella. Hank

[rodeocowboy]

Thanks for your links to the school and principle's email. I hear more disturbing news about Massachusettes lately than I do about Kalifornia. That's sad!

[Wings-n-Wind]

Time for a loud FREEP...

AND.... an excellent legal team, like Home School Defense Fund,
or American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ);Jay Sekulow, et als.

Time for the people to kick the village's attitude...
Methinks

Regards,

[A.J.Armitage]

The trick is to slip under the radar. If you do come to the attention of the "authorities", do what you have to in order to get them to leave you alone, then move. As it stands now, though, I agree with the suggestion that this ought to be freeped.

[OneVike]

``I'm not impressed with testing,'' she said. ``I don't think testing gives you a good picture of a child, really. I think it's very stressful on children to take tests. I don't find them necessary because I'm working with the children every day. I have a good handle on what they know.''

What is wrong with testing, it gives you a standard to teach from.

I have no problem with home schooling, as long as the parents are not idiots. My ex wanted to homeschool my daughter until she was convinced that someone who cannot multiply properly, or does not know when the civil war took places should not be home-schooling their children.

I agree that the schools are pathetic today, and they want to teach a bunch of pc crap. However I do worry about the people who do not have the time or smarts to do it themselves. In the name of raising ones child properly, lets not allow idiots to raise more idiots.

[Lizavetta]

My ex wanted to homeschool my daughter until she was convinced that someone who cannot multiply properly, or does not know when the civil war took places should not be home-schooling their children.

So she's going to send your daughter back into the same system that produced her?

Part of the beauty of homeschooling is learning right along with your kids. Moreover, studies conducted by Dr. Brian Rey have shown that the differences in scores of homeschoolers w/ college-educated parents and homeschoolers w/ high school-educated parents was negligible.

[Alas]

lance,

How about some phone numbers and email addresses, time to freep these (the public servants that think they are our leaders) suckers.

Nukem

[maxwell]

``I'm not impressed with testing,'' she said. ``I don't think testing gives you a good picture of a child, really. I think it's very stressful on children to take tests. I don't find them necessary because I'm working with the children every day. I have a good handle on what they know.''

Hmmmmm... Well nobody else knows, then, do they. I was homeschooled from 3rd grade up, and my mother recognized the importance of dragging our a$$es in to be tested by the state every year, because unless you plan to work at 7-11 or within the protective walls of religious/homeschool kingdom, having an impersonal measure of your scholastic progress makes it a hell of alot easier to get on with higher education etc. in the "outside world"...

[Styria]

There's nothing in the US Constitution about state governments and what they can do, other than that they be of republican form. This state or city's laws don't violate the 14th Amendment's application of the Bill of Rights to the states or interfere with how the federal government is set up, so the US Constitution is entirely irrelevant to this case and they shouldn't be citing it.

[southern rock]

There's nothing in the US Constitution about state governments and what they can do, other than that they be of republican form. This state or city's laws don't violate the 14th Amendment's application of the Bill of Rights to the states or interfere with how the federal government is set up, so the US Constitution is entirely irrelevant to this case and they shouldn't be citing it.

Parental rights outweigh any state or local laws. The home is the ultimate in local government - govt. at its most local.

[southern rock]

What is wrong with testing, it gives you a standard to teach from.

Whose standard? The state's?? No thanks. The parents should set their own standards.

[borntodiefree]

I agree. This is an issue of common law and the state's Delclaration of Rights.

[WriteOn]

Freedom 0, Socialism 1

[WriteOn]

One can fritter freedom away giving in to the state.

[WriteOn]

Actually, the current education bill has explicit exemptions for home-schoolers, last I heard.

[WriteOn]

HSLDA is noticeably absent mention in the article. I guess they never heard of "united we stand..."

[WriteOn]

Apparently, your parents sent you to school and managed to raise an idiot anyway.

[bimmer]

We are not all bigots in Marxachusetts!!!! Some of us are patriotic sorts trying to stick up for homeschooling, the Constitution, gun owners, meat-eaters, the military, and good-looking rednecks.