New Hampshire Lawmaker Equates Homeschooling To "Child Abuse" - Nanny State To Be Pushed On Parents

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Authored by Joseph Jankowski via PlanetFreeWill.com,

In 2012, the State of New Hampshire passed a measure that eased the state’s intervention into the operations of homeschooling families by reducing the number of filings parents would have to submit in order to get state approval for their efforts to educate their children. This move, according to Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), reduced the amount of notices homeschooling parents would have to submit from 3 to just 1 and has produced no negative problems since becoming law.

Now, about five years after the 2012 measure was passed, state lawmakers are eyeing up a plan to roll back the efforts to ease state intervention by requiring third-party oversight of homeschooling operations.

The attack on the 2012 measure was spearheaded by one lawmaker’s demonization of homeschooling as “child abuse” and claims that homeschool is failing some children.

WND reports:

Besides “child abuse,” homeschooling there also has been condemned with comments like, “Half the kids are failing to learn,” and “it’s a floodgate for dropouts,” HSLDA reported.

 

“Recent comments like these reveal antagonism toward homeschool among certain factions in the New Hampshire legislature, explaining why we appear headed toward a legislative battle over homeschool freedoms,” the group revealed Friday.

 

It said reports are that three lawmakers are preparing plans to “roll back improvements,” and discussion already has begun.

 

“Witnesses tell us that in an executive session on a controversial bill relating to banning ‘conversion therapy’ for children experiencing gender confusion, senior Democratic lawmaker Marjorie Porter categorically compared homeschooling to child abuse,” the HSLDA said.

According to sources present at the executive session in the New Hampshire House of Representatives Committee on Health and Human Services on October 26, many people were shocked to hear the legislator’s comments, especially in that context.

“Others told HSLDA that Rep. William Marsh, a Republican member of the committee whose four oldest children graduated from the family’s homeschool and went on to top-tier colleges, and whose youngest is homeschooling through high school, told Rep. Porter that he considered her comments equating homeschooling with child abuse as a personal affront. He subsequently received a public apology from Rep. Porter, who is assistant minority floor leader in the House,” an HSLDA report said.

The push to interject third-party oversight into family education operations is being nudged by Rep. Robert Theberge, R-Berlin and Berlin School District Supt. Corinne Cascadden, who has, according to Democrat Edith Tucker, “very grave doubts about whether half of Berlin’s homeschooled students are getting educated.”

“She (Cascadden) believes that there are some 45 youngsters who are not enrolled in public or private or church schools, whose parents do not make any effort to educate them at all,” Representative Tucker told a local newspaper in an email. “Not only are these neglected youngsters not getting the education they deserve, but they are also missing out on free and reduced breakfast and lunches and other social services.”

Michelle Levell, director of the private nonprofit School Choice for New Hampshire, has shot back at Tucker by citing a lack of evidence on the part of Cascadden’s statement and says the new law “is a solution in search of a problem.”

Cascadden told a homeschooling parent that she, as superintendent, wants access to information required to determine a “child’s welfare,” reports WND.

The current homeschooling debacle playing out in New Hampshire sheds light on the nanny state mentality many people who enter public office carry with them. The 2012 rollbacks in state intervention only increased the amount of freedom parents have to educate their children in the manner they see fit. The reversal now being considered will force parents to follow state mandatory guidelines to satisfy the third-party wedge, therefore affecting the way education is carried out.

This brings up the question of who has the right to determine the proper oversight of a child’s homeschool education. Is it the parents or the state?

Although those who push the nanny state line of only looking out for the child’s welfare seems like a loving effort on the surface, it is against the rights of the parents to be the sole decision maker for their child. Parents who wish to separate the state from their child’s education do so in order to implement what they believe is the most effective way to set their child on a path to success. Once the state steps in to maintain what the bureaucrats believe is the proper way to educate a child, there is a conflict of interests and a diminishing of basic rights at hand.

The nanny state mentality is what has led to the erosion of civil liberties in the United States over the past couple decades. The more we desire the state intervene in our personal life, the less responsibility we carry for ourselves and the large the burden of government grows.

Parents who wish to educate their children in the manner they see fit should be praised for their desire to impose the beliefs they hold dear and the knowledge they see as important on their child.

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peddling-fiction's picture

Do no go Full Retard.

junction's picture

Maybe New Hampshire should start by screening employees of Child Protective Services for past complaints against CPS employees for child abuse.  Look at the case of Roy Moore, where everyone in his community knew he was trolling for young girls and nobody in authority or at the newspapers did anything.  

Manthong's picture

 

Awshit…..   

Government education (ruse is “public" ).......  needs to be eliminated….

And all of their horrible overhead………

 

GlassHouse101's picture

I live in NH, we DO have a "right to revolution" in our state constitution.

J S Bach's picture

The commie-libs just CAN'T STAND the idea of even one child escaping the clutches of their demented mind-control programs.

JimmyJones's picture

This sexualization of children needs to stop and stop now.  I am getting very pissed.  No one under the age of 15 needs to be educated on sexual transitions.  Sorry but this is just a underhanded way of normalizing pedophilia and we all know it.  You want to see the freak shows that went on in Texas regarding these Tranny's in public schools just take a look at Alex Jones's reports from yesterday, it will make your blood boil.  He got it all on video. 

These Tranny's say they are "women" what women do you know that act the way they do?  They act like "sluts" and whores.  Its demented, so in a Tranny's mind all women are sluts and whores.  Where are the feminist?  Oh thats right they are nothing but man haters now that don't have a feminine quality in their whole body.

Billy the Poet's picture

No one under the age of 15 needs to be educated on sexual transitions.

 

I see it as part of a program in which sex is encouraged as a distraction but only non-reproductive sex. So if gay is good then a mutilated transsexual is double plus good. Add to that all the new rules about dating and sex which make it harder for normal kids to interact normally.  For some reason they want to reduce the population while bringing in immigrants to bolster the population.

Gaius Frakkin' Baltar's picture

But letting a boy cut off his balls because he thinks he's a girl isn't child abuse...

But teaching White children they're the cause of the world's problems isn't child abuse...

It's well past time to round up commies and democrats for reeducation or exile... before they're able to do it to us.

Billy the Poet's picture

Bizarre. But I'll bet that this channel still meets all the guidelines:

 

Queer Kid Stuff

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCecsVoeJcsXbAra7Sl4mOPw

JimmyJones's picture

Its a bit obvious there is only one type of population they are trying to reduce.

Billy the Poet's picture

Despite the now established fact that it's not OK to be white it would be absurd to suggest that white people suffer from any kind of discrimination.

That's white supremacist talk, that's what that is.

Lordflin's picture

They don't want to reduce the population they want to transform it.

Billy the Poet's picture

You'll pass out the diversity visas and you'll like it.

Shemp 4 Victory's picture

 

Live free or die?

I believe you mean, "live free or die, bitch!"

Chuck Norris's picture

Homeschooling fails SOME kids, huh?

Tell me how many kids publik skools fail then please.

Implied Violins's picture

Especially when you use white chalk on a black board.

what happened's picture

 

Of course this is not about home schooling but rounding up every body possible to attend schools with declining enrollment due to diminished number of children in the state.  New Hampshire is graying and medium age is 41 and rising.  DCF has quotas too and grasp at anything to keep the courts busy.  Shame on them.

http://www.newhampshire.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110514/NEWHAMPS...

 

jmack's picture

probably because the people you are listening to, are lying.

Blue Steel 309's picture

CPS is a racket run by and for child abusers.

NoDebt's picture

"Not only are these neglected youngsters not getting the education they deserve, but they are also missing out on free and reduced breakfast and lunches and other social services."

BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!  Now you can't even decide for yourself if you want to avail yourself of government assistance.  They're going to force it on your children whether you want it or not.

 

E5's picture

That is the 10000 dollar question.  Is it the federal money that the superintendant is after.  The budget for the DOEd is 10,000 a child.  Of course a fraction of that makes it out of the administration.

Syrin's picture

Everything about this is false.   Homeschooled kids routinelt outperform their indoctrinated candidates on standardized tests and score highly on social inmteraction studies.  They have lower rates of depression, suicide and drug use.   It's the state indoctrination centers taht are detention camps.

E5's picture

I homeshooled my kids.  The first ran national level track and got a full ride to Cornell on that and his 34 on the ACT.  The second is fluent in chinese and also got a 34 on the ACT. He is straight a's at Penn State Mining Engineering.  Both are excellent at social situations.  Everyone we know whose kids went public/private are total shitheads.  They got the ability to think for themselves indoctrinated right out of them.

Sad.

Blankenstein's picture

Facts don't matter to these moronic dumbocrats.  

I guess she didn't bother to read any of the articles about the Baltimore schools.  13 highschools had ZERO students proficient in math, and another SIX had only 1% of their students test proficient.   This was out of 39 highschools.  

 

 

 

BarkingCat's picture

So what are the odds that this cunt is not originally from New Hampshire?

Probably a Masshole or shard from Rhode Island. 

Implied Violins's picture

More like a fucking reptilian from Orion.

wmbz's picture

"Full Retard"

Sadly we are already there!

A. Boaty's picture

Of course the state knows what your kids need better than you.

pods's picture

Yep, the children need to weep as Rep. Porter is laid to rest after watering the tree of liberty.

pods

Mustafa Kemal's picture

"Of course the state knows what your kids need better than you."

Not only that, we see their track record!

Implied Violins's picture

And we see the real goal, now that "No child left behind" has become "No child's behind left".

Two-bits's picture

The tyrannical lawlessness is just unbelievable. Stay the fuck out of my house,  my kids education,  my pants, my doctor's office, and my gun safe.

" half the kids are failing to learn"

What they mean is half the kids are failing to be indoctrinated by state issued submissive testing. Half the kids are failing at how to immediately respond to orders without question. One of our largest problems in this country came as a result of us giving up the education of our children to the state.

GatorMcClusky's picture

Christians under attack
Churches under attack
Families under attack
The freakshow of liberalism rolls on.

BarkingCat's picture

Not liberalism.  Statism.

When you allow them to change the language and redefine words, you've lost the war

Implied Violins's picture

Change that word 'Statism' to 'Satanism' It's time to redefine what we are really fighting.

E5's picture

half the kids are not bringing in the Federal money a Superintendant cares about MOST.  Have you ever known a head of an administration to care about anything other than increasing their budget?

E.F. Mutton's picture

I'm glad I'm over 50.  Maybe I'll be lucky enough to die before America's final flush.

Two-bits's picture

I'm about to turn 42 and I've resigned myself to the fact that I will not see it get better in my lifetime. I'm hoping that I can teach my children everything my parents failed me by not informing me of about how the real world actually works in the hopes that their children will have a fighting chance. Now it's about saving the institutional memory of the truth before we get new-speaked into an alternative truth.

Implied Violins's picture

Fuck that. I want to be one of those that grabs that fucking handle MYSELF.

I work in wastewater. And I can tell you, the sooner it's done the quicker the smell goes away. Plus, I need the job security.

pods's picture

Another one in need of a swing from a hemp rope.

Why do all these fucks think they know what's best for my kids?

pods

VWAndy's picture

 The public school system has been the worst form of child abuse for the last fifty years. This is a sociopathic BS line. Accuse the others of the very shit you are doing.

TalkToLind's picture

All your chillun are belong to us!