I would like to comment on the number of cases that show that a student's school counselor has encouraged them to seek a separation from parents by calling CPS and pursuing legal actions to be removed from home.
First of all, consider the young lady who was drinking and exploring promiscuous behavior. (See www.parentalrights.org) Can you imagine the school counselor arguing that her freedoms were violated when her parents grounded her to protect her from her own folly? She was removed from her home and placed in foster care so that her freedoms could be pursued unhindered. Most likely result: unwed motherhood, member of AA, high school drop-out, tax liability...? Who knows, but the parents are certainly appalled that their love for their daughter was so blatantly ignored in favor of the hedonistic lifestyles viewed by many as the rights of all.
Then take the young man who complained to his school counselor that his parents made him go to church too often. He was also removed from home for a while and only returned when the parents promised the judge they wouldn't make him go to church so much. Imagine what would happen if courts got hold of the daughters of Muslim families who won't let them leave the house enough or uncover their head?
I would be interested to see the official job descriptions of these school counselors. If I remember correctly, when I was in school they were there as mediators if problems arose between students and teachers or between student peers. Never would I have considered them the ear for my problems at home. I would have gone to a friend or a family member, or if necessary someone at church.
Here is my theory: Parents have relinquished so much to the school system that they are now paying the ultimate price for it. Discipline is left to teachers whose hands are tied by laws forbidding them to taking any action other than a kind word. That usually doesn't work on my kids either. Class sizes are so unmanageable that the person with the strongest will wins - sometimes this is not the teacher.
I really wonder how parents can consider that learning is happening in these chaotic rooms so full of government mandates that kids are taught social issues prioritized over math and reading. I know of several children who have been accelerated from grade to grade without consideration for the fact that they cannot read. But failure is not an option - so on they go. After all, it might destroy their self-image. Imagine what learning to read might do for their self-image! Empowering kids with knowledge has given way to social engineering that creates unquestioning automatons who will not rock the boat. How can they? They have not the tools in their arsenal.
My final question is this: If there are none fit to lead, and parental authority is abolished so respect at the nucleus of relationships is dead, who will run for office in ten years? Twenty?
Forgive me if I sound haughty, but home schooled kids are the future's salvation. And their humility and strength of character is what will make the changes we need to restore quality public education for the masses. Their hope lies in us.
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