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Michigan State Officials Call for Registry of Homeschooled Children
The New American ^ | 2/9/24 | Peter Rykowski

Posted on 02/10/2024 9:51:32 AM PST by CFW

Michigan officials are calling upon state lawmakers to enact a mandatory state registry of all homeschooled children in Michigan.

Since December 2023, Michigan state officials — including Attorney General Dana Nessel, the state House and Senate Education Committee chairs, the State Board of Education, and State Superintendent Michael Rice — have criticized homeschooling and called for stricter government regulation and oversight over homeschooled students and their parents.

The motivation for these attacks was the arrest in December of two couples in Clinton County for “allegedly abusing and financially profiting from foster and adopted children.”

However, instead of focusing on the crime itself — or on the high levels of abuse in government schools — these officials are broadly attacking homeschooling and parents seeking alternatives to government schools. For example, Attorney General Nessel alleged that homeschooling had contributed to the couples’ actions.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: children; commies; communists; dictators; education; homeschooling; michigan; privacy
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Only a few decades ago, no matter in which state you lived in the U.S., you could at least be assured you lived in a free country. Not anymore.

People are going to have to flee their communist states and move to a free one to get the boot of the government off their neck. Did the state not investigated the couple prior to placing foster children in their home? It appears the children were already "registered". They were registered with the state as foster children. How much good did that do for them?

If the parents here committed criminal actions, then charge them with those crimes. If the agency staff were negligent, charge them as well. But, don't punish other parents who had nothing to do with those actions. Home-schooling is not in and of itself a criminal act.

1 posted on 02/10/2024 9:51:32 AM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

How long ‘til they’re taxed, in a new and special way, for home schooling?


2 posted on 02/10/2024 9:54:55 AM PST by simpson96
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To: CFW

So they can throw you in jail if you do not put your kids in public INDOCTRINATION.

Free speech and choice right?


3 posted on 02/10/2024 10:01:16 AM PST by Singermom
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To: CFW

Aaaaw . . . HELL NO!


4 posted on 02/10/2024 10:01:39 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: CFW

Soviet. Democrat. But then I repeat myself.


5 posted on 02/10/2024 10:02:57 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Singermom

They need to know who the kids are so that they can be kidnapped and taken to “Progressive Reeducation Camps” at a future date.


6 posted on 02/10/2024 10:03:27 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: CFW
People are going to have to flee their communist states and move to a free one to get the boot of the government off their neck. Did the state not investigated the couple prior to placing foster children in their home? It appears the children were already "registered". They were registered with the state as foster children. How much good did that do for them?

My granddaughter worked as a psychological counselor for a state agency where she evaluated prospective foster parents. She once said that many of these people shouldn't be allowed to even be parents, much less foster parents.

7 posted on 02/10/2024 10:03:29 AM PST by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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Don’t these idiots know that children are God’s creation . . .given to parents on loan from Him to raise them in the admonition of the Lord. I don’t think the government qualifies to have their hands on them at all . . . how would you like to have some of these legislators for parents? This is last days “lock-in-step” stuff.


8 posted on 02/10/2024 10:04:12 AM PST by Maudeen (https://www.ThereIsHopeinJesus.com & https://www.patburt.com/)
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To: simpson96

Put your children on the round up ad gas list?


9 posted on 02/10/2024 10:04:25 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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"... Attorney General Nessel alleged that homeschooling had contributed to the couples’ actions."

And the foster care system?????

10 posted on 02/10/2024 10:07:06 AM PST by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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First they came for your guns then they came for your children.


11 posted on 02/10/2024 10:08:11 AM PST by samadams2000
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“Nazi” N is a lying demonic POS.


12 posted on 02/10/2024 10:10:48 AM PST by kiryandil (Free Zaluzhny!)
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They are the ones not on parole, probation, or outstanding warrants lists. Just work it backwards.


13 posted on 02/10/2024 10:17:37 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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“called for stricter government regulation and oversight”
This is a reason why people choose to homeschool. The government has done such a great job with their own schools /sarc.


14 posted on 02/10/2024 10:21:37 AM PST by uptowngirl
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The filthy bastards hate it when people try to escape their iron grip on our minds. Registry leads to total control, with the end goal being taking away the kids from parents who don't bow down and worship the sacred cow of wokeism.
15 posted on 02/10/2024 10:23:53 AM PST by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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To: simpson96

Aw hell, just cut to the chase and issue them yellow stars to pin on their shirts and blouses.


16 posted on 02/10/2024 10:24:27 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
"Soviet. Democrat. But then I repeat myself."

Demonicrat. Traitor. But then I repeat myself.

17 posted on 02/10/2024 10:26:04 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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It’s not homeschooling. It’s saving your children from degenerate mindless lunatics.


18 posted on 02/10/2024 10:26:32 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: Carl Vehse
--- "Soviet. Democrat. But then I repeat myself." Demonicrat. Traitor. But then I repeat myself.

Indeed.

Occasionally I reread the Declaration of Independence for surety and the refreshment of my thoughts.

WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed.

There is indeed a "long train of abuses" stemming from the American Left in these last decades, and that list increases.
19 posted on 02/10/2024 10:31:34 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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[[”... Attorney General Nessel alleged that homeschooling had contributed to the couples’ actions.” ]]

And this will be the verdict of EVERY case where the state takes the children from the parents- They will accuse the parent of something and claim that homeschooling was to blame-


20 posted on 02/10/2024 10:37:25 AM PST by Bob434
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