What'd I tell ya.
"A local law enforcement officer was quoted as saying that authorities were not able to 'get at' these families earlier because they were home schooling," Tim Lambert, president of the Texas Home School Coalition, said in a news release.
Here is the disturbing Houston Chronicle article in its entirety.David C. Berliner, a regents' professor at the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education at Arizona State University whose research interests include school vouchers and classroom teaching, said it's wrong for the state to be hands-off.
''My take on it all is that children are not the personal property of parents,'' Berliner said by e-mail. ''As minors, the state has an abiding interest in checking on their welfare and their education. When the state doesn't do that, it is abandoning its responsibility to take care of those we define as not able to make decisions on their own.
''Walking away from such responsibility is cowardly. Texans should be ashamed of their lack of oversight," he said.
4 comments:
Not the personal property of parents? You have GOT to be kidding!! I keep telling hubby that I fear our government is out of control...so where to now? : )
Tracy
Yes-this is exactly the concern we all must have-not just homeschooling parents, but ALL parents.
It's a very scary world we're living in.
So you agree with abusing children? That's what is the problem with these children, sexually, emotionally abused. It's disgusting. The parents should be thrown in jail!
Hi TXR,
So you have evidence that these children are being abused? You might want to share it with Texas authorities because, so far, they have none!
My problem is with the state coming in and sweeping hundreds of children away from parents WITHOUT CAUSE.
If there is child abuse going on in some of those homes, then action by the state needs to be taken IN THOSE SPECIFIC HOMES. However, in this case, the beliefs of the families are really the catalyst for this 'child abduction'. There in lies the slippery slope! What happens when the state decides all organized religion 'brainwashes' and, therefore, 'abuses' children? What happens when the state decides if you feed your children Twinkies, you are 'abusing' them?
Do we really want the state to tell us that our children are not our 'personal property'... implying, of course, they are 'community/state property'? Do we really want the state determining which religions are legitimate and which are 'on the fringe'? Do we want the state telling us how to educate our children, what to feed our children, what activities our children must engage in and must not engage in?
I don't know about you, TXR, but I stand firmly on the side of less government intervention in my life, not more. When the government gets involved it's always a mess and it always does harm. As I said in my last blog post, sometimes that harm is the lesser of two evils. But, in this case, that hasn't been proven by any actual evidence other than these people's religion. And, religious beliefs alone are NOT enough cause to steal their children.
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