It’s ALWAYS a great time when the Division of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) covers itself with glory and gets media attention as a result. Then they dig the hole deeper. What do I mean? DCYF (last week and again today) threatened to take some Parents to court.
Over what? And this isn’t an isolated incident.
School Districts may be sending bogus “tips” to DCYF against parents who have, shall we say, become TOO involved in their child’s education and letting their Elected Representatives (aka, School Board members) know how wrongheaded they are. You know, the kinds of Parents that the Federal Department of Justice called “Domestic Terrorists” at the behest of the (now disgraced and broke) National School Board Association?
Let’s say that the phrase “We’ll teach them who is in charge and who is the Boss” keeps ringing in my head. After all, there can be no dissent from the otherwise “lovely” school districts’ Narratives, eh (see here if you don’t believe me)? That schools shouldn’t be held accountable for what they are doing (like screwing and grinding up academic rigor like wheat in a mill) but demanding that students and staff must always know and practice the latest politically-made-up pronouns are, who is oppressing the oppressed, and learn all the micro-aggressions, right?
That Free Speech nonsense by the old white men who had slaves? DESTROY THEIR STATUES and begone with their history! Wait, I’m getting ahead of myself here – that’s another story but sorta connected…sorta. Back on track: And Heaven (I can still say that, right?) help you evil parents if your child holds that there are only two genders because you bring them to a Christian church and that you are demanding to know what the school is doing to your child?
Enter DCYF
The Berlin, NH, DCFY office is going after a two-veteran family (prior Marine and Navy) that has been holding their SAU accountable. DCYF is claiming that they lock their daughter in a bedroom – when there’s no door at all?
There are various and sundry other stories that have been wafting into my emails and texts from other Districts (I am looking at you, Londonderry). There seems to be a “thing” brewing up into which I will be looking to hear more (e.g., got tips? Skip@GraniteGrok.com) about the Edu-Industrial Complex allegedly defending itself using another arm of Government.
One parent shared this response to DCYF.
Let me give you a military phrase from the US Navy: “A shot across their bow.” Some, when seeing such a shot in a movie or on TV attribute it to a bad shot or seamanship – they missed. Most, however, know it as a “warning shot” as in “You should listen to us and do what we are telling you to do or else”. What most don’t understand is that this first shot is not merely a warning but is also a ranging shot in which the atmospheric and sea conditions are evaluated from that shot…such that the second shot, if need be, won’t miss.
Consider this your “shot across the bow”. The next one won’t miss.
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That shot is more than just the promised media attention I mentioned in the opening. We have friends on the various NH House Committees: Children and Family Law; Education; Executive Departments & Admin; Health; Human Services and Elderly Affairs, Judiciary; and the Special Committee on the Family Division of the Circuit Court as this problem may well cross several “silo boundaries.”
Lest I forget, let’s add those that are bound and determined AND angry over Executive Branch overreach.
DCYF hasn’t been covering itself in glory these last few years (I just used that for the second time, but stay with me), especially when kids are being killed while wards of the State. Those horrible events aren’t prevented, but Heaven help you if your son or daughter appears at school with a bruise on their wrist.
It seems to be endemic with almost every Government agency – to the max with their delegated Powers from Legislatures and then a few steps more (like W. VA vs. EPA) to create an environment to justify their existence. Lord knows that there is enough for DCYF such that it doesn’t have to unilaterally expand its mission beyond that which the Legislature gave them.
Sometimes a bruise is just a bruise – kids get them all the time. But Childism seems to be encroaching into this area on the part of some First Responders.
Progressives, in their never-ending crusade to force everyone to adhere to their religion, have added another commandment to their list of evils: Childism. They describe it as “anti-child attitudes” which lead to oppression of children. What fresh hell is this? you may be wondering. Not so fresh actually: two psychiatrists, Chester Pierce and Gail Allen, proposed the theory back as 1975. They described it as “the automatic assumption of superiority of any adult over any child.” One can assume that this would include parents as well.
…But in 2012, psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl resurrected the theory in her book, Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children. The book’s description reads, in part:
In this groundbreaking volume on the human rights of children, acclaimed analyst, political theorist, and biographer Elisabeth Young-Bruehl argues that prejudice exists against children as a group and that it is comparable to racism, sexism, and homophobia ….
…Rather this emerges from a generation which has acquired these two beliefs: 1) that children are not gifts from God, but are expendable prior to birth; and 2) the ultimate achievement in life comes not from raising responsible children, but from attaining fame on social media.
…The scientific theory of Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget has long instructed those who study child development that there are four stages of cognitive development. Piaget also found that a child can’t begin to understand abstract concepts until the adolescent years. Later, 2009 research from the American Psychological Association asserted that emotional maturity lags behind cognition in those same adolescents. Yet anti-Childists insist that immature children must have authority to control their lives. And adults who would deny them that? They’re exercising bigotry similar to racism.
Note, above, my underlining “children as a group.” That is right out of Critical Race Theory. No one is an individual; one is only known by their inclusion into a group.
And this article does a throw back to my first snippet:
The speaker also told students that “parents aren’t safe, and that it’s OK to lie to them about where they are in order to attend this meeting.” The mother added:
She doubled down that parents aren’t safe [and] that heterosexuality and monogamy are not normal.
The school district acknowledged that such a club does exist, but would not address the mother’s allegations. Yet anti-Childists would insist that such undermining of parents is perfectly appropriate. Because a 12-year-old has equal rights to their parents, who are guilty of bigotry should they deny the child what they want.
And once again, to quote John Wick: “I keep getting pulled back in.” Well, there’s another one, too. “You wanted me back… I’m back!” as I seem to be getting further enmeshed in another ludicrous situation.
And that would lead me to Dartmouth-Hitchcock today (at the time of writing) – but in another post.
