The Ninth Circus Circuit Court of Appeals in California issued a ruling yesterday which established that parents have no "due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public
schools as to the information to which their children will be exposed
while enrolled as students."
In other words, you as a parent have no right whatsoever to open your ignorant mouth and question what your child learns in school. And these jokers have the gall to call it "public" education!
Want to know why the parents sued? The Palmdale school district began giving questionnaires to students as young as the first grade that were supposedly an early intervention tool that would help identify students with emotional or psychological problems. Fine and dandy. The parents were even asked to sign a permission slip in order for their children to answer the questions, but they were never told that their children -- first, third, and fifth graders, mind you -- would be asked questions involving:
“touching my private parts too much”
“thinking about sex”
“thinking about touching other people's private parts”
“can't stop thinking about sex”
Un-freaking-believable. Maybe this kind of survey would have helped a young Bill Clinton, but honestly folks, how can a seven year old answer these questions? And what kind of damage could be done if the answers to these questions were ever leaked or misused?
I have shared both personally with friends and via comments on other blogs that I believe the next step liberals will take in the sexualization of our society will be the normalization of "consensual" adult-child sexual relationships. The innocent, unwitting answers that children will give to questions like these could easily be taken out of context and used to support such twisted and dangerous pursuits.
Redstate.org reminds us of one of the goals of state education as outlined in The ABC's of Communism:
The individual human being does not belong to himself, but to society, to the human race. The individual can only live and thrive owing to the existence of society. The child, therefore, belongs to the society in which it lives, and thanks to which it came into being - and this society is something wider than the 'society' of its own parents. To society, likewise, belongs the primary and basic right of educating children.
Thanks to our comrades on the Ninth Circuit Court, that ideology has taken a giant step forward here in America.
(h/t Donald Sensing and Double Toothpicks.)
On a related note, Senate Republicans are still talking about a plan to split the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit Court. This might be worth watching.
Hey, nice to see I'm not the only one blogging about this evil....augh...
Posted by: Stacy | November 04, 2005 at 03:18 PM