When the State decides it, not you, "owns" your children

 

Last week I published an article titled "You can no longer entrust your children to the state".  In it, I highlighted how warped and deviant sexual mores and practices were being effectively imposed on families and children by State educational and health care authorities.

The latest development in this nightmare comes from Massachusetts.

In June 2023, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) unveiled the draft of its new “Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Curriculum Framework” document ... Note that this is officially just “guidelines” for schools. But don’t be fooled. The clear intent down the line is for the legislature to mandate these guidelines.

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The idea of “trauma-sensitive” and “safe and supportive” schools reveals the education establishment’s attitude that schools are equally, if not more, concerned about a child’s safety and emotional support than parents. (And, that the home may not be a safe place.)

The new “equity” emphasis relates to pushing ideas on supposed discrimination (re: race, ethnicity, economic status, and LGBTQ+ identities).

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Throughout the document, sexual orientation and gender identity are treated as valid and legitimate “identifications” which cannot be disputed or challenged in any way. (No alternative moral or scientific perspective is mentioned.) Likewise, systemic discrimination and inequities are presented as fact.

Students will be given resources for support in pursuing LGBT identities, STD testing and treatment, birth control, or abortion, and instructed in how to get help from others if their parents are not in agreement.

Other topics to be addressed in the classroom include rape, sexual consent, sex trafficking, sexual abuse, trauma, domestic violence, dating violence, illicit drugs, community standards, and public and school policy.

There's more at the link, including many examples of such policies and their implications.

In all seriousness, if you take your children's upbringing seriously;  if you want them to adhere to the moral and ethical standards and norms that a traditional (particularly a Christian) upbringing espouses;  if you don't want them exposed to the moral filth that permeates modern society;   then you cannot risk exposing them to the cultural environment being deliberately created and promoted in many State school systems.  The report above refers to Massachusetts specifically, but similar policies are being proposed and implemented in many other states as well.  (To name just one example, see what's happening in Maryland right now.)  The education departments in many states have been infiltrated and overwhelmed by those with ulterior motives and radical progressive agendas, and they're targeting our children.  Even private schools, such as those run by churches, are often forced to follow (or willingly adopt) state curricula including such subjects.  They can no longer be blindly trusted.

It's reached the point where I'm recommending to friends and those who reach out to me for advice that they should not put their children into state-run schools, or those that use a state-approved curriculum, without first checking and double-checking that the curriculum doesn't include this moral trash.  If it does, don't send your kids there!  Home-schooling is fortunately still an option for most Americans, and it's fast becoming the only one where you have a say in what your kids are taught and how they are raised.

I'm aware of a number of families that are banding together to homeschool their children as a group, hiring a trusted teacher (paying partly in cash, partly in kind) to oversee their learning, sharing the burden of supervising them at a central location each day, and planning joint extra-curricular activities.  They see it as defending their kids - and I can't disagree.  I only wish more families were following their example.

Peter