It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => World/Foreign Affairs => Topic started by: LadyVirginia on May 06, 2011, 12:12:20 PM
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http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/201105060.asp (http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/201105060.asp)
Four children ages 9, 7, 5 and 3 from a homeschooling family in Notre-Dame-des-Bois in Québec, Canada have been ordered into public school for socialization. The Roman Catholic family, who have been homeschooling their children for four years, were reported to the youth protection services (YPS) for neglect and had a four-day trial in November 2010. The judge in the case, Judge Nicole Bernier, ordered that the children remain in school or in day care until YPS officials approved a plan for socialization. However, because of apparent bias against homeschooling and these parents, this is unlikely to ever happen.
“This is a shocking decision,” said Faris. “Even more concerning is the judge’s decision to order the younger children who were not of compulsory school age into day care for socialization.”
Faris believes the families were denied a fair trial.
“The judge refused to hear expert witnesses and evidence regarding the value of homeschooling over public schools,” he said. “Unfortunately the judge placed excess weight on protective service experts who found that one child’s hearing impairment ‘indicated’ that the parents could not be trusted and therefore all the children should be enrolled in public school programs.”
“It’s incredible that a judge in Canada would order three-and-half and five-year-old children into public-funded day care for socialization reasons. From what we know of this Catholic family, they have worked very hard to provide an adequate education for their children which included opportunities for social interaction with others. We are gravely concerned with this decision,” he said.
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Now you know why it's impossible to get guns in Canada.
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Day Care and pre-kindergarten should be abolished.
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Add this to the long laundry list of things the new Conservative majority needs to deal with. The Long Gun Registry is another.
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Add this to the long laundry list of things the new Conservative majority needs to deal with. The Long Gun Registry is another.
It'll be interesting to see what passes for a conservative agenda in Canada, and just how they interpret the mandate they've been given.