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May 4, 2006 at 14:01:07

Is Bush Adopting Hitler's Approach to Children and Education?

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”Comprehensive schools that included classes for children with learning problems were closed, parent-teacher associations were made powerless, corporal punishment was reintroduced and progressive teaching methods were discouraged. Early childhood and kindergarten systems were also brought under government control and church and privately sponsored kindergartens were banned. The Froebel Association which pioneered early childhood education in Germany was forced to disband (Tietze, Rossback and Ufemann, 1989). It was a common sight to see three year olds marching and waving flags in a military parade. “

Universal preschool and efforts to have state sponsored, taxpayer funded, public education for 3 and 4 year olds, in addition to state funded birth to three programs, are now being pushed nationally. You might be interested as to what is included in the curriculum planned for these kids. It isn’t just crayon drawings and how to hold a scissor. While we may not be banning church and privately sponsored programs, we will be mandating that they possess certain credentials through the National Association for the Education of Young Children. The fact that the state is feeding, and in some instances clothing and caring for these kids the majority of the day, is of concern. Where is parental control and responsibility? Why is the state becoming so involved in taking care of our young? Have we really embraced outsourcing our parenting to the government?

Oh yeah, maybe they are unfounded comparisons and way too extreme, or maybe they aren’t, but lets check the roadmap and see where we are headed. Are legislators looking to pass laws based on their campaign contributions or because of ideology, or because of a vision of how things should work? Are we passing laws to control people, or help people? Perhaps we are passing laws to control people under the guise of helping them. Should we be passing these kinds of laws at all? When is government “help” voluntarily received and when is it forced upon us? Should we allow laws that will dictate mental screening, recording and even perhaps micro-chipping of our population? How does that measure up to what our founders intended in the name of freedom? You decide.

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Judy has been heavily involved in protecting the rights of parents: particularly homeschoolers. She is currently Research Director for National Home Education Legal Defense. She held the position of Vice President of CT Homeschool Network and now is their legislative liaison. Ms. Aron has written extensively and her articles have appeared in Home Education Magazine, Journal of College Admissions, online blogs and websites, as well as various newspapers. She has been a guest on several radio and cable TV shows speaking about homeschooling, parental rights, mental health testing and a host of other issues.

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I am 55 years old and am concerned that a parent's right to keep their child(ren) safe from being forced onto psychiatric drugs has been signed away by lawmakers.
larryboneI am 55 years old and am concerned that a parent's right to keep their child(ren) safe from being forced onto psychiatric drugs has been signed away by lawmakers.

Is Bush Adopting Hitler's Approach to Children and Education

Your article points out how a parent's right to protect their child(ren) from being put on harmful psychiatric drugs has been taken away through prior legislation signed
into law that has been presented as being "helpful" when it is in fact "harmful". There is a Parental Rights Amendment that is opposed by "liberal" rights groups as being a political issue only being furthered by the far radical right. Democratic and Republican lawmakers should introduce specific legislation design to protect all families and adults and children from being forced unto psychiatric drugs presenting it as a humanitarian rather then partisan political issue. The provisions of this specific legislation would rescind the applicable provisions of previous laws that routinely violate or take away parents' and childrens' rights! Really intense grass roots support for such legislation would have to generated on a huge scale in order for such legislation to be passed first by the House and then the Senate.

by larrybone (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 8 comments) on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 1:04:18 PM