Despicable: Education Begins at Home Act

Does the title sound appealing? Of course it does! Families are supposed to be our children's (or your children's, since I don't have any) educational playground. It's where they're supposed to learn their most basic skills, develop good manners and behaviors, etc. However, this bill is nothing more but further infringement on our civil liberties and rights to raise our children as we wish.

This bill pushes preschool education, which is less like education and more like daycare, in my opinion. Only one of my brothers ever went to preschool, and he turned out no smarter than my other brother or myself. Those early years are important, but family can do just as good a job as any teacher.

It also pushes home visitation. Here's where things get sticky. These home visits double as parenting check-ups. In other words, they're supposed to make sure kids are being treated nicely at home, so make sure not to spank your kids in front of the nice beaurocrats.

Even more frightening is that during these home visits your kid will be screened for "mental illness". As far as I'm concerned, mental illness is a fraud and a form of control (see my other blog), but regardless of how I feel, you should be concerned about someone coming in and forcing pills on your kid.

Now, let's momentarily look at another act we need to oppose titled the Mother's Act. This is when doctors drug pregnant women in order to prevent post-partum depression, which is probably out of control hormones. So, the fetus is being drugged while in its mother's womb, then it's born and subjected to being drugged after a home visit.

This is scary! I urge you, write to your representatives and tell them that we raise our kids our own way. In other words, the State does not own our children! Parents have the right to homeschool their children and make medical decisions, not the government.

Please, do what you can to let Congress know that this is an unacceptable act, and we don't want our taxpayer money going towards this.