Public Schools Appear to Forget About Constitutional Rights

Lew Rockwell has a great post called Parents: The Public Schools Own Your Children. The first thing I noticed in the story is the lack of due process for this student, and how the school kept the parents out of the discipline procedure. Many of you parents are thinking this probably couldn't go on in my school. Let me warn you. It can.

Here in the small town I live, Ozark High School is quietly pushing through a globalist agenda called the International Baccalaureate, which will soon rob Ozark, Missouri school children of American ideals to teach them to be good little globalist citizens. The worst part of it, the school board and administrators are doing their best to keep the parents out of the debate and uninformed of the IB's ties to various world doctrines that don't comply with the message of our Founding Fathers and the freedoms and liberties they established. So think about that as you read this piece from Lew Rockwell.

In Fairfax VA, a 15-year-old boy was accused of having bought a legal mock-marijuana substance, though it was not found on his person. He was then forced into signing a confession, before his parents were even phoned, suspended and banned for seven weeks, and told he would be forced to attend a public school for “criminal” kids. His parents, on the advice of a PS commissar, did not take a lawyer to his disciplinary hearing. The boy took his own life a month later.

Now think about that. Intimidation and removal of due process? If this kid was a prisoner at GITMO, he would have had more rights given to him.

If parents are going to sentence their children to the yellow buses, they should at least teach them never to talk to any school official without being able to call their parents first, and parents should bring a lawyer to any hearing. Far better, of course, to take advantage of one of our remaining freedoms and secede from the public schools for private school or homeschooling.

In Arvada, CA, upon the instructions of public school officials, the police arrested and handcuffed an 11-year-old boy with a disability for “inappropriate drawing.” Good thing he wasn’t singing that ancient student anthem, The Burning of the School:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school
We have tortured all the teachers – we have broken all the rules
We cheated [principal's name] in a dirty game of pool
And our troops go marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah
My teacher hit me with a ruler
I hid behind her door with a loaded .44
And the teacher don’t teach no more!

Of course, it came out in the news yesterday, another child was arrested by police at his school for drawing stick figures. One happened to have a stick finger gun incapable of killing anyone, including the stick figures in the drawings. It's insane what is taking place in the public schools, and parents need to prepare their children like the article says. Take the Fifth until a parent arrives.