REMOVE YOUR KID FROM CORRUPT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
Public Schools Turn To Thought Control
Monday, July 10, 2000 10:12
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With No Obligation to Educate, Schools Turn to Thought Control
By Linda Gorman
In case you were ever in
doubt, the Colorado Court of Appeals has just made it official. Colorado public schools
have no legally enforceable obligation to educate children. According to the court,
parents and students cannot sue school districts because they "are not private
students enrolled in a private vocational school but, instead, consist of the general
public. They have not individually bargained with the
school district, nor individually paid for specific
educational
services. As a result, they cannot assert legal claims for
the alleged failure to provide those unbargained-for services."[1]
The Court found that "the
contention that the quality of education provided by the school district is inadequate--is
not a matter to be properly resolved by the courts." Had various courts not already
found legal excuses for taking control of almost every other aspect of school operations,
its restraint would be refreshing.
In other words, the state may require
that children attend school and that everyone pay school taxes. In return, citizens get to
vote for one of the slates of school board candidates offered by the teacher's union.
Though government entities are free to
compel people to pay for lousy services over which they have little control, private
entities are not. Private vocational schools failing to offer promised classes or hours of
instruction can be sued.
Having mastered the art of pretending
to educate those required to attend it and having been freed of any responsibility to do
otherwise, the Denver Public School System (DPS) is apparently planning to expand into
pretending to provide mental, medical, and behavioral health services. To this end, the
Center for Human Investment Policy at the University of Colorado Denver was "asked to
develop a health/behavioral
health needs assessment survey to gather broader
input" to determine if "principals, nurses, psychologists, social workers,
teachers and parents are in agreement about these issues."[2]
Judging from the loaded questions, DPS
officials want the power to pass judgment on the physical, mental, emotional, and social
health of individual children and to treat those problems as they see fit.
"What level of health and
behavioral health care do you believe your school should provide?" asks question
number 7. In addition to "Don't know," one may pick Basic Care, which includes
referral for assessment and treatment, Intermediate Care, which adds counseling and care
for chronic health problems, or Full Care which includes treatment for general medical and
mental health problems and referral to specialists.
There is no space for telling DPS elites to stay out of
health care delivery until they have mastered the art of delivering reading, writing, and
arithmetic.
Note also that mental health and
behavioral problems are lumped with medical ones despite the fact that medicine has a
scientific basis and most mental and behavioral "health" assessments consist of
little more than someone's opinion. The potential for abuse, for drugging the rebels and
brainwashing those who disagree, is huge and already beginning to be realized.
According to Jon E. Dougherty writing
in WorldNetDaily, Derek Loutzenheiser, a 12-year-old student with an exemplary record in
Holland, Michigan, was labeled a potential violence risk when he suggested, in a Social
Studies class discussion, that one way to prevent school shootings would be to arm
instructors. School officials told his parents that they would not have to involve Social
Services if Derek was separated from other students and forced to enter the school's
"Mentor"
program so that an adult supervisor could monitor his
thought
processes.[3] Recall that Social Service bureaucrats have
the power to declare parents guilty of child abuse until proven innocent, and to take
their child from them until parents prove their innocence.
School officials noted that Derek had
violated the school's policy of non-violence by fighting back when attacked by three older
students and had often spoken favorably about the First and Second Amendments. His parents
noted that Derek had refused to sign a "Red Letter" vow of peace written by the
principal that asked students to take a oath to turn in their friends for suspicious
activity and to never defend themselves if attacked.
In short, Derek had refused to parrot
the party line and was judged behaviorally unhealthy. The Soviets pioneered this model by
declaring those who disagreed with the government mentally aberrant and imprisoning them
in mental institutions until their thinking could be adjusted by psychological
conditioning or drugs. As DPS puts it, "schools are where one finds children, so it
[sic] is the best place to offer health/ behavioral health services," "children
need good health to learn, so health/behavioral health is a valid school concern, and
"children with health/behavioral health challenges
need medical
attention in schools to reach their potential."[4]
DPS has a point. Judging from his
behavior, Derek has already assimilated the independence and respect for truth
characteristic of outstanding Americans. Without medical attention, he never will realize
his full potential as a good little citizen in the new world order.
Notes:
[[1]]Denver Parents Association et al. v. Denver Board of
Education; 98CA1309, Colorado Court of Appeals. February 3, 2000. As posted on the
Colorado Bar Association's web site, http://www.cobar.org/coappcts/ca2000/ct02036.htm,
on 10 May 2000.
[2] Denver Public School Health and Behavioral
Health Needs Assessment
Survey. 1 May 2000. The Center for Human Investment
Policy, University
of Colorado, Denver.
[3] Jon E. Dougherty. 30 March 2000.
"Sixth grader targeted for pro-gun
remarks, 'A' student defends 2nd Amendment, flagged as
violence risk."
WorldNetDaily,
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty/200000330_xnjdo_sixth_grad.shtml
as posted on the web on 9 May 2000.[4] Denver Public
School Health and Behavioral Health Needs Assessment
Survey. 1 May 2000. The Center for Human Investment
Policy, University
of Colorado, Denver. Questions 15 [2], 15 [4], and 15 [5]
all of which
required an agree or disagree answer. Note that agreeing
that schools
should be concerned about health does not imply that they
should deliver it.
Linda Gorman is a Senior Fellow with the Independence Institute, a free-market think tank in Golden, Colorado, http://i2i.org. This article originally appeared in the Colorado Daily (Boulder), for which Linda Gorman is a regular columnist.
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