School Districts Weaponize Child Protection Services Against Uncooperative Parents

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    How School Districts Weaponize Child Protection Services Against Uncooperative Parents

    Schooling is adept at rooting out individuality and enforcing compliance. In his book, Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky writes: "In fact, the whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on—because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions."

    This filtering process begins very early in a child’s schooling as conformity is rewarded and divergence is punished.

    Most of us played this game as schoolchildren. We know the rules. The kids who raise their hands, color in the lines, and obey succeed; the kids who challenge the rules struggle. The problem now is that the rules are extending beyond the classroom. Parents are increasingly required to obey, to conform to a school’s demands even if they believe such orders may not be appropriate for their child.

    In my advocacy work with homeschooling families across the country, I frequently hear stories from parents who decided to homeschool their kids because schools were pressuring them to comply with various special education plans, push medications onto their children, or submit to other restrictive procedures they felt were not in their child’s best interest. Even more heartbreaking is the growing trend of school officials to unleash child protective services (CPS) on parents, homeschooling or not, who refuse to give in to a district’s demands.

    An investigative report by The Hechinger Report and HuffPost released last month revealed that schools are increasingly using child protective services as a weapon against parents. It said:

    Fed up with what they see as obstinate parents who don’t agree to special education services for their child, or disruptive kids who make learning difficult, schools sometimes use the threat of a child-protection investigation to strong-arm parents into complying with the school’s wishes or transferring their children to a new school. That approach is not only improper, but it can be devastating for families, even if the allegations are ultimately determined to be unfounded.

    Such families also have fewer resources to fight back. When a family in a wealthy Brooklyn neighborhood learned roughly two years ago that their child’s school had initiated an ACS [New York’s Administration for Children’s Services] investigation against them, they sued the city education department. Parents from lower-income, majority-black and Latino neighborhoods, few of whom can afford that option, say such investigations can be a regular, even expected, part of parenting.
    or parents who are unhappy with their child's school and decide to withdraw their child for homeschooling, threats of child welfare investigations can sometimes turn to actions. In Massachusetts, a mother is reportedly suing the Worcester Public Schools after school officials called the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) on her for alleged "educational neglect", even though the mother contends that she dutifully filed her homeschooling paperwork for her eight-year-old son mid-year.​

    In that latter case, involving a homeschooling parent, the mother obtained representation through Home School Legal Defense Association. Twenty years ago HSLDA won in a somewhat similar case in California for the Calabretta family. The county's DSS and city's PD decided not to appeal after the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals upheld the parents' win. That move meant that case is binding in the Ninth Circuit but is guidance for other circuits such as the one that includes Massachusetts. For obvious reasons, HSLDA would like to make the standards of the Calabretta case - and others that may arise from this Massachusetts case - binding nationally.


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    I've tried to have discussions with Progressives about this in the past, but they usually seem to just say it's all BS, and refuse to believe schools or government workers would routinely abuse their power like that.
    What a surprise...
     
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    Society though does have an interest in seeing children are educated homeschooling is great and parents caring but where should we draw the line seems important. Especially since this is a State managed issue and each State is different. If parents homeschool only out of a Bible and pray since the world will end should the government not step in to see the children don't become ignorant adults. And the Amish get away with this largely on religious grounds but in the modern age forcing them to end children to High School might be needed for those who leave, and one who stay won't overly be harmed by keeping them in a few more years.
     
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    Child protective and adult protective services are like kangaro courts with to many unconstitutional powers that they wind up abusing the people they are supposed to be protecting.

    People often make false vindictive reports against people they don't like.

    It has happened to me.
     
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    How School Districts Weaponize Child Protection Services Against Uncooperative Parents


    I've tried to have discussions with Progressives about this in the past, but they usually seem to just say it's all BS, and refuse to believe schools or government workers would routinely abuse their power like that.
    What a surprise...[/QUOTE]

    It's not BS. I know they abuse their powers. I'm progressive in case you didn't know.

    Great op!
     
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    And the number of children of the same sex in a room if the room is big four girls could share a room IMHO shouldn't if they are fed, warm, educated, clothed, provided for and loved be enough?
     
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    Leftists love separating children from their parents if they're US citizens.
     
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    Coincidentally, saw this today:

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    we don't need no thought control.
     
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