Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag

I am so angry right now I can hardly think. I am not sure where to even start. This Senate bill would put them closer to the control of Home Schools – knew it was coming but I certainly never expected it from Ted Cruz and Mike Lee. Something in my gut is telling me not only did they not read the legislation to understand what this means for Home Schoolers and children in general, but whomever actually wrote it and I would guess it came from Michael Farris, went in on the evangelical side of their “hearts” in asking for their support.

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO GET OUT OF EDUCATION AND OUR CHILDREN’S LIVES!

Remember what happens when anyone gets involved with the federal government especially with money – they own you!

That this bill, S 306 addresses Private Schools and categorizes Home Schools as Private Schools – this is another step to control our children and we need to stop, each and everyone of us, dealing with Common Core since it is not going to go away, and go after every Senator who is supporting this bill. Drown their phone lines and mailboxes – use it in their re-election bids coming up – if we do not do this we might as well walk up to the courthouses and just hand over to them our children. Paints an interesting picture!

As you are aware more and more children are now being Home Schooled because of Common Core so they had to legislate to gain back their control.

The bill is actually to allow GRANT funds to (ONCE AGAIN income below the poverty level) children enrolled in the public schools and the state-accredited private schools/home schools. Mike Lee introduced the bill. You now have Home School Education NAMED in a Federal bill.

How much more money are we going to address to low-income/poverty children and we are getting the same results except now it is CHARTER schools full of these children that are failing?

I have written in the past about Michael Farris of the Home School Legal Defense League (HSLDL). He is the Executive Director of ParentalRights.org; founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) and Patrick Henry College. Home Schooler’s parents all over the country look to Farris almost as their protector and savior from the big bad wolves and he could be. But his total distortion in regards to the Parental Rights Act (PRA) is leading all parents down a path of parental rights destruction.

The Declaration of Independence tells us our Rights come from God not the government; they are unalienable. The very purpose of the government is to SECURE the rights God gave to us and when the government seeks to take away our rights it is time to throw them out with the “bath water.” The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights enumerates 30+ rights and states they come from “man” (constitution or laws). Not God but Man! Wrong!

Now to take a look at Michael Farris’ web site parentalrights.org and see what he says about our Rights. If you take the time to go to the web site you will see that once again it is being stated parental rights are to come from the Constitution and not God. That will make them they are fundamental rights not unalienable rights. So now from what I read on the PR website – their mission is to protect children by empowering parents through adoption of the Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Farris is telling parents that by adding this amendment to the constitution it will protect our children and prevent the U.S. ratification of the UN “The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights”.

Farris tells his parents and legislators:  “The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is approaching a possible ratification by the United States Senate. This treaty, as harmless as it may appear, is capable of attacking the very core of the child-parent relationship, removing parents from their central role in the growth and development of a child, and replacing them with the long arm of government supervision within the home.”  JUST DOES FARRIS THINK PLACING PARENTAL CONTROL UNDER THE CONSTITUTION WILL DO?  He knows exactly what it will do!

Farris is in fact stating parental rights come from the government not GOD. I wonder if some of the very religious Home School families realize this. From Publius Hildah Parental rights: God-given and Unalienable? Or Government-granted and Revocable? 7/2-/13) Farris uses Supreme Court Justice Scalia’s Dissent in Troxel v. Granville (2000) using this to support his own theory that unless a right is enumerated in the federal Constitution, judges can’t enforce it, and the right can’t be protected.

But I will throw back to Farris and all the supporting legislators that if it is not in the Constitution the Judges have no business ruling on it anyway or even accepting any legal issues pertaining to parental rights. This is no different than Education. Education is NOT addressed in the Constitution, but the lawyers (as Farris is) added the legal part to address it into the Constitution and look where we are today?

Scalia’s stated in part:

parental rights are “unalienable and come from God and are from the 9th Amendment; the Declaration of Independence does NOT delegate power to the federal courts – only the federal constitution; It is for State Legislators and candidates for that office to argue that the State has no power to interfere with parents’ God-given authority over the rearing of their children, and to act accordingly. [The People need to elect State Legislators who understand that the State may not properly infringe God given parental rights]; the federal Constitution does not authorize judges to come up with their own lists of what “rights” people have; and the federal Constitution does not mention “parental rights” so the federal courts have no “judicial power” over these types of cases.

In his closing, Scalia warned against turning family law over to the federal government:

“…If we embrace this un-enumerated right … we will be ushering in a new regime of judicially prescribed, and federally prescribed, family law. I have no reason to believe that federal judges will be better at this than state legislatures; and state legislatures have the great advantages of doing harm in a more circumscribed area, of being able to correct their mistakes in a flash, and of being removable by the people.”

With all the funds paid to HSLDF) every year in case you need their legal advise, I personally would have done more good for the families if they had paid it into a college fund. Farris has gotten rich off the backs of these parents.

Might I remind you Farris is a full supporter of Mike Huckabee in politics and has been since 2008. The very same Huckabee who calls himself a minister, aligned with Jeb Bush in support of the Common Core, Dec 2013 told his TV audiences that he had changed his mind and no longer supported CC and then after the first of the year has lunch with the CCSSO telling them not to drop CC, but to re-brand it/re-name it and eventually parents would forget it was the same as CC.

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