Homeschooling Made Illegal?!?!?! WTF!

Current mood:OUTRAGED!



Homeschooling Banned in California as State Turns Parents Into Criminals for Teaching Their Own Children



David Gutierrez

Natural News

September 23, 2008



A California appeals court has ruled that homeschooling of children is
illegal unless their parents have teaching credentials from the state.



“California is now on the path to being the only state to deny the vast
majority of homeschooling parents their fundamental right to teach
their own children at home,” said Michael Smith, president of the Home
School Legal Defense Association.



The court overturned a lower court’s finding that homeschooling did not constitute a violation of child welfare laws.



“California courts have held that … parents do not have a
constitutional right to homeschool their children,” Justice H. Walter
Croskey said.



The decision stunned parents of the state’s roughly 166,000
homeschooled children. While the court claimed that it was merely
clarifying an existing law and not making a new one, the decision
leaves the parents of homeschooled children at risk of arrest and
criminal prosecution.



“At first, there was a sense of, ‘No way,’ ” homeschool parent Loren
Mavromati said. “Then there was a little bit of fear. I think it has
moved now into indignation.”



Parents’ reasons for homeschooling their children range from religious
beliefs to dissatisfaction with the education received at public or
private schools. But according to the court, all California children
between the ages of 6 and 18 must attend either a full-time public or
private school or be taught by a tutor credentialed for their specific
grade level.



“A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school
children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and
the nation,” Croskey wrote.



California’s largest teachers union welcomed the decision as did the Children’s Law Center of Los Angeles.



According to the law center’s executive director, Leslie Heimov,
children should not be educated at home, because they need to be “in a
place daily where they would be observed by people who had a duty to
ensure their ongoing safety.”

inside every cynic...

it is true what they say...
because sometimes in the early morning hours
when I lie awake
I can FEEL it happening...
slowly yet surely as watching the grass grow
on a hot summer day

Options become fewer every passing moment
these lives I've lived... this soul...
its purpose to EVOLVE
yet I am unsure how in this life...
big ideas and all the times I've fallen...

everywhere I look the noose is tightening
the possibilities of an acceptable life in
the eyes of the monster that is a general consensus
specifics more intensified...
can't help but feel it is all a lost cause...

what good is understanding if none will hear it?
and it simply becomes a way to feel worse and worse
about the state of the world about
cycling back to realize that perhaps my view
from this window is simply a reflection...

here it comes my friends terror
and that same ole urge to RUN
as fast and far as my 10 dollars will carry...
we could join up with some gypsys
Lennon and I
a flock of weirdos like I've always aspired for
and maybe just for a moment or two
I could live a life that is my tru-STOP!

here comes that voice again...
it'll never work
never happen
never understand
never recover
never
never
never
never
how about the little house?
the big garden?
nope
nope
never
never
the partner?
doesn't exist
never will
all the things I wanted to teach my boy?
they'll never let you get away with it...
there is only ONE version of it all to be taught
and guess what sweetheart...
YOURS ain't it...
there's only one place you're going....
have I told you about the nice soft walls?
.....
.....
.....
.....
...the only constant is change
and I do, but it never seems for the better
I look back and all I see is that yesterday
there were more possibilities than today
maybe I am wiser now...
or maybe I am JADED now?
experience is bullshit
I miss living by FEEL...
maybe I was naive... but I WAS REAL.

If only I hadn't...
If only they didn't...
If only I could've...
If only I could face forward fearless
If only it wasn't so hard to just BE ME.

I think it's true what they say...
inside every cynic is the crushed soul of an optimist
the stolen dreams of a aspiring revolutionary
and the shreds of a far too large heart.

Food For Thought :)

Current mood: rebellious

The decline of childhood diseases before vaccination :

There is a generally held concept that mass vaccine programs were largely responsible for control of former epidemic diseases, but with the probable exception of the polio vaccine, in most instances this was not the case. From 1911 to 1935 the 4 leading causes of death among those aged 1 to 14 years, covered by Metropolitan Life Insurance policies, were diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough.11

However, by 1945 the combined rates from these 4 diseases had declined by 95%, before mass vaccine program began in the United States .12 By far the greatest factors in the decline were better housing with less crowded conditions, better nutrition, and other public health, hygienic, and medical measures.

The conventional view is that adverse vaccine reactions are relatively uncommon. At variance with this are internationally recognized authorities such as Dr. Bernard Rimland. Also at variance are many parents whose children have developed medical complications following vaccines where no other cause was evident.

Time may prove that one of the basic flaws in American childhood vaccine programs is that it is increasingly compulsory and mandatory. Once considered the fountainhead of freedom, in the enforcement of vaccine programs, America has become one of the most stringent and arbitrary of all nations. Parents refusing to have their children vaccinated, often for religious reasons, are subject to charges of child abuse.

Public health officials contend that such compulsory measures are necessary for control of infectious diseases which, they maintain, would increase along with childhood death rates if the vaccine mandates were lifted. In my opinion, this argument does not bear up to scrutiny for the following reasons:

In 1979 Sweden banned the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine, considering it both ineffective and dangerous. In spite of the banning, or perhaps because of it, Sweden maintains one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world. In 1975 Japan raised the age of pertussis vaccine to 2 years of age, considering it dangerous in infancy. Since that time, sudden infant death syndrome (cot deaths) have largely disappeared in Japan.13

Other nations with either voluntary vaccine programs, such as England, or less stringently enforced programs have lower infant mortality rates than the US. With few exceptions, they have not had a return of deadly epidemics (with high mortality).


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The Religion...

Current mood: enlightened
Category: Religion and Philosophy


Late one evening... in a sort of a spiritual trance, Dr. Bronner told me that absolute cleanliness is Godliness... and I believed...

In the state of absolute cleanliness a voice came unto me that spoke of one of the keys to my freedom... of humility... of loosing the vainty of shine and silky strands... and allowing the matting of nature to reclaim my locks... and I believed...

I have read... I have searched in the nooks and crevices of life... I have approached all with a wish to understand... I have been told that to every life who seeks, the answer will be found... and I believe....

I have learned of certain indisputable truths... of poisons and perfumes.... of healing and health... I am chubbier than ever at present... but paradoxically healthier than ever... I have been shown, guided, and taught a medicine that trancends the toxins and chemicals upon which foolish man places so much trust.... I am learning of the amazing marvel which is the bodies we possess... and their unmistakable ability to heal themselves when freed from the toxic life most of us have come to accept as the standard.... and I believe....

I have learned of the tampering of mad scientists and billionaires.... in laboratories of dirt they shall grow their frankenfruits.... of the future of your meats... COW Version 1.5 has already infiltrated your local stop and slop..... the cloning has begun.... The gene guns already fired... countless species of plant already lost forever to the profitable corporate approved test-tube altered few.... The hormone have already seeped into your frosty chocolate milk and breakfast cereal... The results apparent on the swelling chest of prepubecent girls the world over... I have been told of the disasterous effect of the patenting of LIFE ITSELF... human guinea pig tested. government approved. AND I BELIEVE.

I have seen the hypocrisy.... the lies... The maniputation of my brothers and sisters... mother and father.... before my very eyes. A tube... a screen... telling us all what to think... how to be.... what to see... what we are to believe of this purposely constructed ridgid structure of fear, called "Reality TV".... I have heard the shepard dogs... I have opened my eyes... to a promise that there can be a better tommorrow if we would all just stand up and take notice of this world we live in... The nature which has nutured us from the beginning of humankind... the beautiful dark rich earth beneath our feets which we have all turned our backs on... It is the only solid truth... and all that is worth breaking ourselves over... She is REAL. this I have learned... and I BELIEVE....

an awakening is coming.... a revolution that has not yet been seen by the massess... a revelation in the heart and soul... of all that connects us in spite of all that seek to divide us.... The soldiers are rising up.... with a passion that cannot be bought with college tuition.... No matter the religion... the face... the pigmentation of our skin and the color of our eyes... we will not go back into slavery.... we will not give up this air we breathe without a fight... we will not lay down and close our eyes... numbed by the matrix of endless useless pointless bullshit they have built.... the shackles of suits and computer keyboards they have set out..... the camps they have built to shield us from the TERROR of living.... We will not lose our freedom to apathy and cowardice... We are not going out like that..... One way or another we will all be one..... ALL ONE or ALL NONE.