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Originally Posted by AmateurFlix
while that does strike me as being pretty fucked up, the idea of someone's 11 year old child being pregnant strikes me as being far more fucked up.
although I do think the parents should be at the very least informed about any medical decisions being made for their child 
...on a side note, does anyone think home-schooling is going to be less popular in the coming years? |
Yeah me too, although I've never known an 11 year old pregnant, I know that it happens somewhere, sometime. Of course it's just a side comment, it doesnt get to the meat of the matter which is proper parenting in the first place. Schools are the pseudo-parent more and more. Wards of the State.
Maine state law specifically prohibits them from telling the parents however. That'd be enough for me to move if I had a young child. Pretty simple.
On home schooling, I think these sorts of insane school practices that we speak about are driving more and more people to home school. HOWEVER, laws are being passed in many states in the US now that declare you must have a teaching degree in order to home school. Most states already require quarterly and annual reports and testing results. And there's been no big story about how home schooled kids are failing. Besides which, if you home school, the public school still gets their taxes from you. Why do they want to make it harder to home school?