Thrown in Jail in America for Homeschooling ??
What went wrong?
United States of America - the land of the free?
America the police state has
become a labyrinth of rules, regulations and mandates, the amount of
which is impossible to know, let alone comply with. But you know, that
ol’ “ignorance of the law is no excuse” excuse wielded by faceless,
un-elected bureaucrats wins out every time against the hapless, helpless
citizen.
In fact, some Americans cynically believe that rules are
nearly impossible to comply with, and that they are written that way on
purpose so as to justify the size, scope and power of the state
That’s
what seems to be the case in Ohio, whose Republican governor, John
Kasich, wants to be the next president of the United States. His state’s
department of education is so stringently absurd, that for lack of a
piece of paper, it seeks to jail parents who dare to home-school their kids.
As reported by Off The Grid News,
two separate households that home-school their children are facing jail
time and thousands of dollars in fines and fees, for just barely missing
state deadlines that they knew nothing about.
The charges are as ridiculous as the filings – “contributing to the delinquency of a minor,” despite the fact that state nannies acknowledged
the children were indeed being schooled at home, in parental education
programs that officials later acknowledged met the state’s requirements.
The
state school system says that the parents did not provide them with
proper, timely notification that their kids would not be attending
public school [a
requirement that only a totalitarian could love]. But in contemptuous
fashion, rather than notifying the parents of their delinquent paperwork
filing, education officials let the children’s’ absences from public
school mount up for nearly a month, so that they could bring criminal
charges against them, according to Peter Kamakawiwoole of the Home
School Legal Defense Association
Guilty of … missing paperwork
Job justification, you see. Now watch – don’t be surprised if the next
step is for the state to step in and remove the children from the homes
of these “criminals.”
“One family filed a notice of intent when they began homeschooling last
year, but did not know they had to file another notice for this school
year,” Kamakawiwoole wrote [and why didn’t the state education nannies tell them they
needed to file again?].
“The other family filed their annual notice of
intent, but did not submit an educational assessment with their notice
because they had not yet completed it, and had been told by their school
district that there was no deadline for submitting the assessment.”
So they were given wrong information by school officials, and are now being made to suffer for it.
Kamakawiwoole
maintained that the state education officials who are paid by state
taxpayers had an obligation to contact the families when absences began
to mount.
“As soon as both families realized their errors, they took action to
comply with their districts’ demands,” he wrote. “After filing the
paperwork, both families received a letter from their superintendent
verifying that their home school program is in compliance with state law
for the 2015-2016 school year.”
However, the school district then brought criminal charges – which will
carry a maximum of $1,000 in fines, and six months in the county jail,
not to mention what kind of lasting effect such a conviction might have
on other constitutional rights (like gun ownership).
However,
“each day that a child is ‘truant’ can be considered a separate
offense,” Kamakawiwoole said, so that means jail time and fines could
mount quickly.
When
schools use this statute to prosecute families for what amounts to a
simple clerical error, the response is disproportionate and draconian.”
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posted by Kerminator at 21:47
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