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MO government school files complaint to stop “neglect”, AKA homeschooling

From WND:

A Missouri public school is pursuing a complaint against a mother for withdrawing her son and daughter from the school and teaching them at home, after an apparent threat to the daughter’s life at the school.

The case involves Moberly, Mo., mother Anita Nicoli, who withdrew her daughter and a son from Moberly Middle School recently after what she has described as a two-year campaign of intimidation by other students.

The breaking point came when another student, who allegedly had harassed and assaulted her daughter, drew a picture of herself holding a gun and pointing it directly at Nicoli’s daughter. The picture was passed around among students, she said.

But she now has been cited in a complaint filed by the school after she withdrew two of her children.

Multiple telephone messages left with officials at the school district were not returned. But Nicoli told WND that she is accused of “educational neglect” by social services, based on a complaint from the school.
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In Nicoli’s encounter with school officials in Moberly, she said her children had been subjected to harassment and badgering at the school for several years. She cited incidents of being slapped, bullied, kicked and butted, as well as threatened. Her son was shoved into a metal bar. Another time a student used a seat belt buckle on the school bus to hit him.

The last situation with her daughter happened when the other student hit her daughter in the face with a locker door, leaving a bruise on her check. Then the other student slapped her daughter, punched her, and threatened to “kick” her.

The attacker then drew the picture and showed it to Nicoli’s daughter before it was taken by the teacher, she said.

Discussions with school administrators led nowhere, so she notified the school of her homeschool plans and went forward.

“Three days after I pulled my kids out, the school apparently wrote a letter to juvenile authorities [with a complaint],” she told WND. She was notified by juvenile authorities and went in to talk with them.

The complaint letter, filed by a counselor at the school, essentially said, “I couldn’t adequately teach (neither can a lot of government school teachers, but that doesn’t stop them from collecting paychecks! – Ed.),” Nicholi said. But she said juvenile authorities would not let her touch, or even see the letter, instead reading from it to her.
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“They’re lashing out because they didn’t want to deal with the reason for this – what they were not doing for my children,” Nicoli said. “I told them, ‘My children have a right to a safe and proper education, and you’re not doing it so I’m pulling them out.’” …

“Educational neglect” is educrat speak for “not letting your kids get assaulted or killed in our war zone facilities”, I guess.

Homeschooling threatens the government school bureaucracy, so by God (insert politically correct deity here), they’re not going to just sit back and allow that to happen!  Who in the hell does this woman think she is, educating and protecting her own kids instead of trusting her local government school to do better than she does?  Since when do we allow parents to determine their kids’ best interests?

October 17, 2007 - Posted by | public education

11 Comments »

  1. not letting your kids get assaulted or killed in our war zone facilities

    Heck, that’s an average day in Memphis city schools.

    Comment by The Truth Hurts | October 17, 2007

  2. Ain’t that the truth, Truth!

    Comment by crushliberalism | October 17, 2007

  3. It takes a village….

    ….to take away the rights of parents to protect their children or decide what is or is not in their best interest. The village elders are insane.

    Comment by JsinGood | October 17, 2007

  4. Don’t they suspend kids who draw pictures of guns?

    Comment by Henry | October 17, 2007

  5. I guess the high priests/priestesses of sensitivity and caring are more interested in their agendas than the welfare of two innocent children!
    Aren’t these touchy feely moonbats supposed to care be about “for The Children”!

    Now they are harassing a mother exercising her right to choose and the rights of children to feel safe!
    I thought these lovers of freedom would respect individual freedom I guess that is a joke!
    I guess all those emotional spiels and rhetoric are just that rhetoric which doesn’t amount for anything!

    Comment by Chilerkle | October 17, 2007

  6. Yes, Henry, they do…unless the victims are going to be homeschooled!

    Aren’t these touchy feely moonbats supposed to care about “The Children”!

    Yes, but in their warped hearts and heads, they think that only government can provide for “the children”.

    Comment by crushliberalism | October 17, 2007

  7. Yeah, those home school kids are so neglected.

    Comment by Henry | October 17, 2007

  8. I’ve said it before that in my teaching days there were some homeschool transfers that I could have reported for neglect. That was NOT normally the case however.

    I don’t know exactly what happened here, but I am curious about these kids constant victimhood. Bullies do exist but so do parents who rather their kids be a martyr than stick up for themselves. I can’t tell if this is the case here, but I wonder.

    As a former public school teacher, I don’t feel threatened by homeschoolers. I actually wish more parents were as involved in their kids’ educations. However, you don’t need to justify homeschooling by telling everyone that the public schools suck.

    Comment by Alli | October 18, 2007

  9. I’ve said it before that in my teaching days there were some homeschool transfers that I could have reported for neglect.

    But if a family pulled their child out of the school where you worked, would you have reported that family for neglect three days later? I mean, it’s kinda hard to prove that the parents were poorly teaching their kids within a scant three days from removal, isn’t it?

    However, you don’t need to justify homeschooling by telling everyone that the public schools suck.

    Actually, in my view, homeschooling doesn’t need to be justified by anyone. The educrats apparently disagree. But if the public school in question does suck, I’d say that would be a good reason for homeschooling.

    Comment by crushliberalism | October 18, 2007

  10. No, I would not have reported that child for neglect three days later. Not sure what the dynamics of this case are though.

    No one should have to justify how they educate their kids, but people do whether they homeschool or send their kids to private schools.

    I don’t know if all “educrats” disagree with homeschooling. Sure they are skeptical and can get defensive. I probably would too if I were a principal and a parent withdraws their kid to homeschool, tells me I suck in the process, enrolls their kid the next year when he’s now behind his classmates, costs me an additional resource teacher to get him up to speed, and drags test scores down leaving more people believing I suck…yuck, I’m defending administrators!

    Comment by Alli | October 18, 2007

  11. I just think their kids should have fought back. I mean, that’s what it means to be an American. Don’t take shit from nobody.

    Really, this is ridiculous. I don’t think homeschooling is the best idea overall, but if that’s what she wants, so be it. Educational Neglect this is not.

    Comment by wailin | October 19, 2007


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