Under The Olive Tree

MORE TEEN ABUSE FOR THE CPS?

It is my guess that we will no doubt be seeing the entire community of Gloucester, Mass. being raided by the CPS, local sheriff, FBI, etc. for the despicable outbreak of pregnancy amongst teenage girls in the high school there. What kind of school system are they running anyway? I thought underage pregnancy was pretty good proof of statutory rape. Isn’t that why we called the pretty sexy girls “jail bait” when we were in high school?

Read any news articles connected with this, to quote one from Time, “She noted that some of the girls involved had been identified as being at risk of becoming teen mothers as early as sixth grade , when they began to request pregnancy tests in middle school.(note: who would they be requesting pregnancy tests from at that age, these would be 11 year olds!) “What we’ve seen is the girls fit a certain profile,” Todd said. “They’re socially isolated, and they don’t have the support of their families.” The Time article states that ” seven or eight sophomore girls” are involved and presumably pregnant – let’s see, freshman is 9th grade – 14 year olds, so sophomore girls are 15 years old, aren’t they? – it certainly sounds like these girls live in an environment that perpetuates their abuse by – we would suppose if they are pregnant – male members of this community – who we can assume are being “groomed” to abuse these vulnerable girls. However, as of this writing I can find no information regarding the identity of these male perpetrators and any mention of them and their complicity is – should we say, “pregnantly absent.”

Of course the public schools systems response will be to issue condoms and birth control pills – presumably without the knowledge of the parents of these children.

And in the meantime – California courts are trying to decide if homeschooling parents are enemies of the State – as is being decided in Germany where homeschooling parents have been sentenced to 3 months in jail and accused of a crime similar to drunk driving.

In the California case the initial ruling against home schooling stated that ” the trial court had found that “keeping the children at home deprived them of situations where (1) they could interact with people outside the family, (2) there are people who could provide help if something is amiss in the children’s lives, and (3) they could develop emotionally in a broader world than the parents’ ‘cloistered’ setting.”

And we are supposed to believe that the environment that provides this valuable interaction and protection is the public school system? There is case after sordid case, from teen pregnancy, to suicide, drug abuse, violence, mass murder, teacher/student sex, and a pervasive lack of basic educational skills that are the facts of life in far too many public schools – especially in California. According to one website the following authors were all home schooled: Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, Irving Berlin, Charles Dickens and C.S. Lewis; as were the following US Presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, William Henry Harrison and Theodore F. Roosevelt.

We can only guess how many famous and well adjusted, well educated people were schooled at home – and how many possibly productive lives have been stunted, distorted, and literally cut short in the public school system.