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Sunday, March 11, 2001
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
COLUMN: Vin Suprynowicz
Police-state measure attacks parental rights
I've researched more than a dozen cases in recent
months, in which state "child protection" workers around this
country have pulled happy, healthy children out of loving homes for such
parental "offenses" as serious as "bad housekeeping"
or "failure to immunize."
Experts tell me this research has barely uncovered the
tip of the iceberg.
The presumption in America today -- first for the
poor, but increasingly for all of us -- is that our children belong to
the state. The state allows those children to remain "out on
loan" to their natural birth parents only so long as you meet all
the government's requirements: Every vaccination recommended by the major
pharmaceutical firms, no matter how dangerous or statistically useless.
No guns in the house; no strange faith-healing religious beliefs. And
you'd better make sure your kid reports to the local government youth
propaganda camp from the age of 6 ... or is it 5 now? ... so the local
educrats get their subsidies based on a full complement of little butts
to warm the seats.
Now comes Senate Bill 73, pre-filed Feb. 1 for this
session of the Legislature in the name of state Sen. Ray Rawson's entire
Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.
The bill "requires state board of education to
prescribe form for reports of parental involvement in education of
children." In other words, it would enact Las Vegas Assemblywoman
(and special ed teacher) Chris Giunchigliani's longtime dream: teachers
filling out report cards on parents.
The teachers union would help draft a form on which
teachers would grade parents on "whether the parent or legal
guardian ensures the attendance and punctuality of the pupil, including,
without limitation, whether the pupil: (1) Completes his homework
assignments in a timely manner. ... " Also required would be "(b)
A report of whether the parent or legal guardian ensures the health and
safety of the pupil, including, without limitation, whether: ... (2)
Current information is on file with the school regarding the health of
the pupil, such as immunization records ... (3) The parent and child
abide by any applicable rules and policies of the school and the school
district; and ... (c) A report ... including, without limitation, whether
the parent or legal guardian: (1) Completes forms and other documents
that are required by the school or school district in a timely manner;
(2) Assists in carrying out a plan to improve the pupil's academic
achievement, if applicable; (3) Attends conferences between the teacher
and the parent or legal guardian, if applicable; and (4) Attends school
activities."
Looking forward to have your "parental report
card" entered into evidence if you ever face a child custody
hearing? Starting to get the idea that maybe we now work for them?
This police-state measure goes on to assure us that
the new parental report cards shall not "interfere unreasonably with
the personal privacy of the parent and his child or the legal guardian
and his ward." But in fact, destroying any remaining family privacy
and freedom is precisely what this slave measure is about, the trick
being that educrats and teachers unions will get to define the word
"unreasonably."
I use the word "slave" advisedly -- slaves
on the plantation two centuries ago probably had as much freedom to
decide how their kids would be raised as we'll retain when the fascists
proposing this crap get through with us.
The premise of public education is that these
"experts" with their fancy "Ed" degrees know far more
about what and how our kids should learn than do we
"uneducated" boobs. Yet they're now so desperate to shift the
blame for their failures that they seek a way to document "bad
parental involvement" as the main culprit.
Parental involvement? Taxpaying parents who show up
with detailed instructions on the course of study and method of
instruction best suited to their individual child -- let alone concerns
or demands involving library books and sex education curricula -- need
not apply. Our only job -- as SB73 makes abundantly clear -- is to
gratefully pay up, while teaching our children to bow obediently before
the altar of the almighty state.
My advice? Do not call or write your senator or
representative to urge defeat of this measure. It'll just get back-doored
later on. Nope: They've shown us what they intend, and there's only one solution
left:
Pull your kids out of the government schools.
Home-school every child. Leave their charnel houses of child enslavement
and family destruction derelict and abandoned. We only think we
"need" their glorified day care services because mom now has to
work full-time just to pay the taxes on dad's paycheck ... primarily to
fund the government schools. Refuse to pay another penny in school taxes,
loudly and publicly. They've declared war on the rights of parents to
raise our own kids. And if it's war they want, Franklin Roosevelt and
Dwight Eisenhower taught us the only terms we can afford to offer
fascists:
Unconditional surrender. An end to the government
schools. Close them all.
Vin Suprynowicz, the Review-Journal's assistant
editorial page editor, is author of "Send in the Waco Killers."
His column appears Sunday.
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