A sixth-grader in Virginia was suspended for a year after he was falsely accused of having a marijuana leaf in his backpack. According to The Washington Post:

The student, the 11-year-old son of two school teachers, had to enroll in the district’s alternative education program and be homeschooled. He was evaluated by a psychiatrist for substance abuse problems, and charged with marijuana possession in juvenile court. In the months since September, he’s become withdrawn, depressed, and he suffers from panic attacks. He is worried his life is over, according to his mother, and that he will never get into college.

Now you may say this kind of thing is a rarity, an example of overzealous enforcement of the rules. American public education is by nature overzealous and tyrannical. Why can’t you send your children to school for two hours a day? Why can’t you send them to math class but not to English class? Because the system says so. It rules family life. Almost every waking hour is controlled by the school and parents are its willing servants. And the more family breakdown, the more political control of families through the school. Note the case of Connecticut schools, where officials are now planning to institute psychiatric surveillance of homeschoolers in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings.

Please follow and like us: