The undesirability of cultural homogenization would lead us to oppose efforts by the state to assume a greater role in children's development, even if we were confident that the state were capable of doing so effectively and intelligently.
Franz v. United States, 707 F 2d 582, (D.C. Cir. 1983)Ill-considered and improper governmental action may create significant injury where no problem of any kind previously existed.
Wallis v. Spencer, 202 F.3d 1126 (9th Cir. 2000)
My first child spent many years in a private school. Taking her out of it and putting her into the Rockingham County Public School system proved to be the biggest mistake of my life.
In its 1983 report, the National Commission on Excellence in Education stated: "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war."
For over a decade, I have researched the field of child welfare, a field that the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect characterized as of displaying "chronic and multiple organ failure."
While I have always been mindful that the public school systems and the child welfare agencies work closely together, even I was surprised to learn that these two systems had in effect become so inextricably intertwined as to have become virtually indistinguishable one from the other in both form and function.
Through the process of so blending, one system has taken on the worst characteristics of the other. In its comprehensive evaluation of the child welfare system, the Children's Defense Fund identified a pronounced and explicit anti-family bias to exist at all levels of decision making. This bias now appears to reflect itself in the public school system as well.
Arrogant public school officials have used every available means of administrative chicanery to transform what ought have been the best years of a young girl's life into her worst. Welcome to the lawsuit that I've dreamed about for years.