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Booming NC home schools face little scrutiny
Charlotte Observer ^ | Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013 | Ann Doss Helms

Posted on 11/23/2013 8:37:30 PM PST by Sam's Army

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To: Tax-chick
"To emphasize, Ms. Larson is a DSS Supervisor. She was the adoptive/foster parent of the children in question. She's the one who is supposed to "scrutinize" normal people's families."

Yes, thank you. A bit late when I was getting this posted, and that point can't be said enough.

21 posted on 11/24/2013 7:22:14 AM PST by Sam's Army
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To: Sam's Army
In North Carolina, like most states, those children can disappear from outside scrutiny.

No outside scrutiny? The horror.

Typical statist reporting. How is the "outside scrutiny" of government schools doing? What successes have they had?

22 posted on 11/24/2013 8:27:40 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: lurk
An 11-year-old Union County boy found handcuffed to his front porch with a dead chicken tied to his neck. Wanda Sue Larson, who had custody of the boy and four adopted children living in the home, had filed last year to home-school the children. Larson has been charged with child abuse, and investigators say they found signs the boy was frequently handcuffed inside.

Whoops. It appears this woman was under the "outside scrutiny" of the state. How did that go?

23 posted on 11/24/2013 8:29:10 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: unlearner

The real attack isn’t against “home schooling”, but against parents in general. It’s hard to home school as a single parent. This is just an extension of the attack against parenting and parental control of children. The entire purpose of the government school system is to separate children from their parent’s values and beliefs. The goal is to instill in children a love of the state and its values and beliefs.


24 posted on 11/24/2013 8:33:14 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Tax-chick

The state using the state to expand the state. That’s the Standard Operating Procedure always, no? The capon media just go along to get along.


25 posted on 11/24/2013 8:41:00 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Sam's Army
Well?...Gee!...If school-aged kids are in so much danger, then what about those poor little preschoolers? Aren't they in danger, too?

I have an idea! Let's have government school teachers in every maternity delivery room. The teachers can snip the umbilical cord and then whisk the newborn off to newborn schools. Hey! It's for the chiiiiildren!

( Is a sarc tag necessary?)

26 posted on 11/24/2013 8:57:09 AM PST by wintertime
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To: wintertime
( Is a sarc tag necessary?)
Certainly shouldn’t be, but I’ll provide it nonetheless:
</sarcasm>
( <b><font color=red>&lt;/sarcasm></font></b> )

27 posted on 11/24/2013 10:15:17 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (&#147;Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: 1010RD

The entire purpose of the government school system is to separate children from their parent’s values and beliefs.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Gatto documents this well in his writings. The **earliest** lobbyists for government run and compelled schooling ( in the early and mid 1800s) **plainly** stated that this was, indeed, their intention. Separate the children from their parents!


28 posted on 11/24/2013 10:20:45 AM PST by wintertime
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To: Sam's Army

NC homeschool dad here. Nothing succeeds like success. And for the record, I do not need to be “supervised” by some government bureaucrat. Thank God for the North Carolina Department of Non-Public Education, who leaves homeschoolers the hell alone and lets us do our jobs.


29 posted on 11/24/2013 10:32:34 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: Sam's Army

In other news, parents found to be threat to child well being... </sarcasm>


30 posted on 11/24/2013 6:42:48 PM PST by mbj
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To: Sam's Army

I found myself criticizing myself for just not believing
this story was the whole story? Am I getting lazy, or
just wising up?


31 posted on 12/08/2013 7:19:13 PM PST by cycjec
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To: Slings and Arrows

that’s a quote, but I can’t place it. entirely apposite,
though


32 posted on 12/08/2013 7:19:54 PM PST by cycjec
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To: Prospero

You said what I wanted to say. I’ll save it up for later
use, if you don’t mind


33 posted on 12/08/2013 7:20:59 PM PST by cycjec
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To: cycjec

David Horowitz, quoting an unnamed SDS leader.


34 posted on 12/08/2013 7:34:36 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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