All news media are biased. All of them. But I do find this particular source has been fair and truthful in reporting so far. But yes, it's always good to check multiple sources. So no problem.



good point Lula.....I should've said that....lol.



Well the best thing for kids is to let their parents parent them. Once the government gets nvolved, it's not usually a good thing.

I've seen two families get messed up by interferring with parental discipline. One involved a young poor family who was scared out of their minds when a government agency knocked on their door when they found out via a teacher that their boy was "spanked." They told them if they "spanked" him again, he was to be taken from the family. I knew this family. She worked for me for seven years. She was so scared she wouldn't discipline her child for fear of losing him.....need I tell you how he turned out?

The same thing happened to another family I knew. This time it was a divorce situation and the father who is a business owner and a "good guy" was told he had no choice but to keep his hand of his incorrigible son. He told me he was threatened with jailtime. He also said it was quite obvious the boy held this over his father's head. To this day, the dad blames his son's troubles and lack of discipline on the government's interference. He now says, "let the government take care of him." His son is a slug and not a productive person to society.




Well I don't think it's based on fear so much as taking responsibility for their own child. Many parents dump their kids off anywhere they can and take barely any responsibility other than feeding and clothing them.

When you have a bucket of apples and there's one bad apple in the bunch.....what are the chances the good apples are going to make the one bad apple good?



That's good. We're all learning and growing. Otherwise we'd be dead. But before you make rash decisions on parenting or giving your parental control to the government, it would help that you become one first. Don't you think this will make you a bit more credible?

KFC:

People are allowed to have, and express, opinions even when they don't have personal experience with the topic. It may make him more credible, but it's fine to talk about it now. Actually, I'd take his opinion on homeschooling seriously because he states he was homeschooled.

General Comment:

At this point, I need control over what my kids are learning, because without that control, the government is going to teach them things they don't need to learn yet, and not teach them things they do need to be learning. Also, I don't want to worry about what school district I'm living in. I want the decisions put back in the hands of the parents.

KFC WRITES:

I missed this one....what's the name of the article? It must have been when my computer was in the shop.

One ties in well with the other though. Governor Arnie pushed legislation through that mandates all public schools teach and effectively promote homosexuality, bisexuality and transexuality as normal; just another lifestyle.....BUT how many Californians actually share this moral principle and want their children taught this ideology?

That's the rub....education has become an ideological battleground. I bet after Gov. Arnie signed this legislation into law, many parents pulled their kids out of the public school system sending them to either private schools or homeschooling.

This must have made those who control education in the State of California fume...doncha think?

Imagine a few Los Angeles judges telling parents they can't home school. I can't imagine that! Kinda pushing totalitarianism isn't it? Anyway, I hope those home schooling parents push back. What a battle!

The most Dishonorable, judge Judge H. Walter Croskey is a pox on the Constitutions of California and the United States. Him and Hitler would have gotten along well.

I think it's laughable that, after decades of hearing from teachers' organizations that there is no need to maintain standards for teachers, all of the sudden stadards are important for anyone else.

When so many students graduate from high school without being able to read, public school teachers and totalitarian judges are in no position to point fingers.

Apparently, the only thing this fool of a judge thinks parents should have a say in is whether to abort their kids or not. Once out of the womb, he thinks they belong to the government.

What a Storm Trooping Nazi! I bet he thought Schindler's List was a comedy!

Yay for Godwin's Law, people.

I wonder - is there really any way to have a political argument on the net anymore without referencing Nazism or Hitler in any way, shape, or form?  Certainly not on JU, guys.

Come on, you can be more creative in your arguments than that.  Totally joto.

If the jack boots fit.

~Springtime... for Hitler...~

Yes, I was just thinking about this yesterday.  It's ok for us to abort our kids, but not teach them?  Huh?  In Belgium they are jailing parents because they are NOT vaccinating their kids for Polio.  Huh? 

I'm all for vaccinations.  I complied with them all but I parent's rights seriously.  Why is it ok for us to abort  (read kill) but not okay to not vaccinate? 

This just makes no sense at all. 

Because we're supposed to bow down to their obvious superior intellect and knowledge of what's best for us.

Finally, someone who understands scientists!