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When I read the post yesterday by (if you haven't read it I encourage you to do so) I thought back to my own experiences and am convinced that in both cases an incredible amount of luck was involved. In her case, her family's medical experience helped out immensely. In the case of the charges made against me by the emergency room doctor because of my daughters' medical problem I was fortunate enough to have an exceptionally good OB/GYN for them. But it's not just CPS were up against, it's the whole system. CPS works in conjuncture with the family courts (they're almost indistinguishable), the medical establishment and the educational system- all toward a common goal... the state ownership of our children.
This unholy partnership really came to fruition under the Clinton administration in the 1990's. The teachers union (NEA) through their ties to the White House and Dept. of Education, teachers received an enormous amount of control over the educational system- not to improve education (as test scores bear out), but to impose an agenda upon America's families. The NEA, like the CDF, is less interested in children except where they can be used as pawns in a game of control. Parents/families are seen as "the enemy," impediments to the imposition of their worldview. To the people that control the educational administration, teachers are instruments of social change rather than educators. According to an NEA executive... "The National Education Association will become a political power second to no other special interest group... we will organize this profession from top to bottom into logical operational units [cells?] that can move swiftly and effectively and with power unmatched by any other organized group in the nation." -Sam Lambert, NEA Exec. Secretary- 1967.
In 1983, an article in Humanist (an anti-religious publication) one writer is quoted as saying: " "The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new- the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism." How this equates to educating children is beyond me. I sounds more like social programming... and it gets worse: "Our goal is behavioral change. The majority of our youth still hold to the values of their parents and if we do not resocialize them to accept change, our society may decay." I'll give you one more quote, this by a Dr. Chester Pierce of Harvard addressing the NEA National Conference in 1973 (this has been in the works a long time)... "Every child in America entering school at age five is
mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you teachers to make all of these sick children well by creating the international children of the future."
Teachers in this paradigm play a dual role- teaching children to become "global citizens," with the states values, not those of their family... and acting as social workers. In Michigan, children were routinely questioned about their parents and home life- sometimes subtly, sometimes more directly. If they don't answer the questions correctly CPS becomes involved. Everything is the family's fault- not the child. I'll give you an example.
I adopted my sons, as I've written before. The oldest had interaction with his biological father when we lived in Phoenix (the younger son he ignored). He told Zack the eldest that I wasn't his father and he didn't have to do anything I tell him... not a good start to a relationship. Let me say that I don't like spanking and try to avoid it except as a last resort. Zack started spitting on other kids on the bus and naturally got into trouble. I explained that spitting wasn't a good way to make friends- in fact I was unaware of any culture that viewed it as an acceptable form of greeting. He continued, so I restricted his playground activities. He had to come in after school instead of playing with the other kids. It didn't work. The third spitting episode he had to stand for an hour in the corner before dinner. Guess what? It didn't work so he got a spanking. Now the teachers, in their questioning, routinely ask "do your parents hit you at home?" Hitting is a very vague term- they don't ask about spanking (which is legal) they specifically say "Hit." CPS shows up wanting to know why I "beat" my kids.
They interviewed my wife, my kids, my neighbors, my neighbors' kids. Well, I was put on the "watch list," which means any more "beatings" my kids would be taken. About a week later I got called to school because Zack's teacher couldn't handle him and demanded I put him on ritalin. I questioned her medical expertise saying something like I thought she was an educator not a medical diagnostician. She said I was agitated and threatening and threatened to call security. I told her not to bother- I pulled my kids and homeschooled... Little did I know, the adventure had just begun!
If you live in Michigan and have problems with CPS there is a place to turn for help...
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