Excuse Me...Your Kids?

"Take at hazard one hundred children of several educated generations and one hundred uneducated children of the people and compare them in anything you please; in strength, in agility, in mind, in the ability to acquire knowledge, even in morality — and in all respects you are startled by the vast superiority on the side of the children of the uneducated".
~ Count Leo Tolstoy, "Education and Children" (1862)

Now take the above quote and consider what's happening with children today in public schools:

Take the 19 crazy things school children are being arrested for in America.

I'll just give a few example here in case you decided not to read the article.


A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.

A security guard at one school in California broke the arm of a 16-year-old girl because she left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning up some cake that she had spilled.

A 6-year-old girl down in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.

In Allentown, Pennsylvania a 14-year-old girl was tasered in the groin area by a school security officer even though she had put up her hands in the air to surrender.

That's just a few of many, many examples of 3 very detrimental policies we Americans have allowed to become entrenched in our society.  Allowing the state to take control of our disciplinary practices as parents, to take control of our schools, and to back up and defend the actions of the mentally challenged neanderthals they call 'security officers' or 'police'.

The fact that these individuals have no problem doing what they're doing, worse yet, think it's the RIGHT thing to do, is a good indication of just what we have given up as parents and citizens.  The fact that this is even a discussion in America is pretty sad.  There will be a lot who see these and say "Well it's not happening in MY kids school so I don't have to worry about it.  I know the principal".  Then when it shows up it changes to "Well it's not happening to MY kid because he's a good boy".

Until the parents take the schools back, the state has complete and total authority over your child.  In fact, if you got a marriage license before getting married, then the state has complete control over your marriage AND the children.  In fact, legally you're raising the kids FOR the state, who is the actual authority.

There are some good things going on to combat this, but the only effort that's making any REAL difference is the home schooling movement.  Maybe it's time to consider how homeschooling has changed so many lives for the better and actually producing civic-minded, intelligent and responsible kids.

Here's a good site for Washington residents.

Worth a look-see.