UH OH! Here comes
UH OH! Here comes the CPS. Two kids were being mis-treated. CPS was on the case. Then their guardians withdrew them from school to HS and CPS dropped the ball. Now, they’re blaming HSing and looking for a “solution”.
The two boys were being home-schooled. They told child welfare workers that if they made too many mistakes in their work they didn’t get anything to eat.
For days, sometimes, no food.
If the boys had been attending conventional classes, public or private, their teachers likely would have noticed something was wrong and reported it. Statewide, some 18.8 percent of the 179,432 cases of child abuse investigated last year were reported by school personnel…
A CPS spokeswoman said the agency’s “peak time” normally is in September and October, after kids return to school. “Teachers are such good eyes and ears for us,” she said, adding that “teachers’ calls tend to be very accurate.”…
Regarding the two boys who were starved, a CPS official said that being home-schooled “meant the family could hide them better.” …
CPS officials knew their mother was in prison. They had investigated earlier complaints that the boys were being mistreated. They knew the boys had been transferred from public schooling to home schooling. They knew that teachers wouldn’t be helping out in this case.
Can’t we find some way to protect kids like these two little boys without infringing on the rights of all our home-schooling families?