The first day of school always nets a large amount of homework for parents, and yesterday, I found myself frowning...a lot.
You see...there's a reason I don't share a lot of my political views. No one likes them. My brother is a raging conservative Republican. A lot of people I know or associate with are adamant Democrats. I'm...well...not. I have no use for politcal parties really. When there's an election, I feel like I'm choosing the lesser of two (3/4/whatever) evils. Which candidate will do the least amount of damage to the diminishing personal rights and freedoms of his constituants.
Back to homework...
This year marks a distinct change in the attendance policy of the county that just...sits so very wrong with me. Those more aggressive truancy laws have found us, you see. Honestly, I'm disgusted with the lack of parental responsibility that makes politicians feel it's necessary to refer unexcused absences to the district attorney's office, but I've accepted that. I can see the wheres and whys. I don't like it, but I understand it. But let me tell you what you're subjecting the children in your country to...
I read a little further, and what I find more disturbing is that the school can determine if your child has excessive excused absences. Upon this determination, they can then send their social worker to investigate (and honestly, I wish someone would define this job for me, because I've found the one assigned to my son's school to be a witch-hunting busy-body) and decide if your case should be passed on to authorities. Oh, and signing your child out of school early to go to a doctor's office or because they called you from school to tell you that they're sick? That counts as an absence now.
So, all you need is one school official who has a personal vendetta against a parent or child and a good stretch of one of those resitant/changing strains of the common cold that runs around a school, and now we have a child who is removed from their parents during a social services investigation. All you need is someone who can't afford to take their child to the doctor's office everytime that child sneezes. All you need to traumatize any child by removing them from a loving home is a couple of reports blowing something innocent out of proportion.
And if you think that's paranoid or extremist, look around you at the people you talk to online. Look at the petty, childish, lying, two-faced back-stabbing around you and imagine those people with a little bit of power that comes from a position in a school's administration.
I weep for my nation, because more and more, I see the children of the very generation that fought so hard for personal rights and rallied for the freedoms this country is supposed to be founded on give those rights and freedoms right back. I see it in every facet of today's politics in every area of our lives. You're giving control of your life to someone else bit by bit by bit. You don't want to be responsible for your children, so you demand that the government does it. You don't want to be kind to your fellow man, so you demand laws that define how to treat others.
People are sheep. They don't want to think for themselves, so they let someone else do it for them. Even I've done it at times in my life, and I -knew- better. You're all sheep, and whether you follow the 'popular' people or an organized religion that subverts the very principals it imparts or a government that answers its peoples' problems with more control.
I'm not clear on the facts of the matter, but I'm fairly certain Hitler didn't start his political carreer talking about genocide. He talked about political reform and making things better for his country. Jim Jones didn't start out by giving sermons about cyanide kool-aid. People like them count on people like you being sheep, so that even when the truth becomes clear, it's too late to take back the power they were given.
Think for yourselves. Dare to give the unpopular opinion. Demand that people take responsibility for their own actions and do so yourself.
/rant done
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Well said.
Ah, the level of idiocy that's been present at the high-school level of administration since columbine has trickled down.
I'm afraid that by the time my son gets to school-age they'll start tagging kids with hidden cameras to spy on them at home...
And a few years later, we'll be required to obtain a liscense to raise our own children...
ahh, but they've already beat you to that, Lela. Just by giving the social workers the power they have. It is up to someone else to decide if we are fit to raise our own children and if we aren't, they are taken away. All that's needed now is the paper to say "yes, you can raise children".
I'm waiting for them to pass the second-hand smoke laws that tell us we can't keep custody if we smoke. That's coming too, you know.
I wonder what reasoning was given for starting "Hitler's Youth". Was it about doing things in the best interest of the children of Germany?
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