Welcoming the Government Super Nanny

by Fran Eaton

As much as Illinois parents pride themselves on fighting to preserve parental rights, the fact is they are no longer in control.  The Government Super Nanny has moved in.

Last year, when Governor Blagojevich's taxpayer-funded "Preschool for All" program was proposed, those who should have been adamantly opposed based on parental rights said weak things like, "It's great idea, but we just can't afford it," while others shrugged their shoulders, saying  "It doesn't affect me, it's voluntary."

How naive can we be?  When will we learn that social progressives strategically maneuver frog-in-the-gradually-boiling-water proposals to make their radical long term socialized education system more palatable to the average parent?

The all-knowing Government Super Nanny has come in because we forfeited our rights to her by our own negligence.

Yet one more parent-right-stealing proposal is squirming its way through the Illinois Senate.  Senator Kwame "I-want-compulsory-school-attendance-age-down-to-3" Raoul's SB 543 demands any child enrolled in kindergarten to be kept in the system, regardless of his or her parents' desire to back out.

So your little barely five year old goes to kindergarten, cries, begins having upset stomachs and is unable to cope with the classroom-induced stress.  He becomes a behavior problem.  He's given a mental health screening survey, and a red flag goes up.  The school psychologist is called in to assess the child, and well, he recommends that little Stephen is put on medication to help him adapt. 

Stephen's mom says, "No, he's the youngest in the family, and he's just not ready to be away from home all day.  Let's bring him back home to mature a little and maybe try it again next year, when he's a little more ready."

With SB 543, little Stephen's mom will be forced to transfer that little one to another school -- perhaps, yes, a home school -- but still, once enrolled in the public system, the state sees the child as their responsibility and will fight to keep that little one (read a valuable revenue stream $$) in the system.

Raoul's reasonable-sounding bill is simply more stealing of parents rights, just as last year's "voluntary" universal preschool program is.

Those who sit on their hands and wait for someone else to engage in the fight against outrageous mandates to mandate HPV vaccines, lower compulsory school attendance age, provide universal preschool and require mandatory mental health screening should not complain, whine or fidget because the I-can-do-this-better-than-you Government Nanny has moved into their homes. 

Why wouldn't she take over your responsibilities?  Your complacency welcomed her with open arms.

Call your senator and tell him/her that children are their parents to raise, not the state's.  Fight for your kids. 

Comments

[momtofour]

During the last fifteen years the homeschooling, parental rights slogan has gone from "The state does not own the children" to "lets give the authorities the benefit of the doubt". The older wiser ones who fought so hard to keep the freedom we have in Illinois have retired and few to no new leaders have taken their place. Illinois is full of apathy. It's sad to see. And it is sad to know that in ten years the freedoms we knew in the past will be almost completely eradicated by those who believe the state owns our children. Today's moms and dads who refuse to stand up for their rights will be the ones who loose their children's freedom.

[Linda Shelton, Ph.D.,M.D.]

Fran

God Bless You! This issue is SO important.

Where are the voices for our constitutional and civil rights? Big brother is here.

Is the populous so content in their overmortgaged homes, inadequate health insurance, failing schools, rip-off high interest rate credit cards, corrupt courts, undertrained and overly agressive police, inadequately supported necessary social services, intrusive vaccine laws, intrusive child mental health screening laws, patronage government that keeps 10% of the taxpayer dollars in kickbacks and bribes, and war monger oil hungry state that they sit back and do nothing?

We are living IN a police state that is removing our rights for liberty, self-determination, religious freedom and the pursuit of happiness. It is attacking whistleblowers, threatening witnesses that could expose them, moving more and more towards secrecy (Illinois Inspector General) to cover-up their corruption and prevent transparency to the populous, and trashing the constitution.

The government divides and conquers. As long as conservatives, libertarians, democrats, republicans, greens,right and left wing, pro-life, pro-choice, pro-religion, anti-gay, pro-gay, etc are divided the government can run amuck. United We Stand. Divided We Fall. We should agree to disagree because at the present we are falling and totalitarian government is standing.

Jews in Europe opened their eyes too late in the 1940s. Non-Jews, generally, simply closed them. Does history not repeat itself?

Evil prospers when good men fail to act - our failure dooms our children to what amounts to slavery to the government big brothers who will determine every aspect of our lives.

People - OPEN YOUR EYES AND STAND UP!

Linda Shelton, Ph.D., M.D.
picepil@aol.com

[Christina Walls]

As Linda said above:

OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE!!!

We have got to get these people out of office before we loose all our rights as parents. What has happened to our Constitution?? We as Americans need to do our homework to preserve our rights. The government is stepping into our homes and taking over. Are we going to continue to allow this to happen?