In a fitting homage to the glorious wisdom of allowing the state to have purview in every possible area of life, the Children’s Aid Society (Canada’s state appointed group who get to give parenting techniques the up or down vote) has really taken the cake:

On May 30, Leduc picked Victoria up from school, where she’s enrolled in an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) class with several boys around the same age. When Leduc returned home, there was an urgent call asking her to return to the Livingstone Street East school.

Frightened, Leduc rushed back to the school. She and Victoria entered a room where they were met by the principal, the vice-principal and the teacher.

Leduc said they advised her that Victoria’s educational assistant (EA) had visited a psychic, who said a youngster whose name started with “V” was being sexually abused by a man between 23 and 26 years old. Leduc was also handed a list of recent behaviours exhibited by her daughter.

School principal Brian Tremain — who referred phone calls seeking comment to the board — advised Leduc that the CAS had been contacted.

Do we really want to have the state determining the best way to protect children (as if they have a clue how to go about it), in contravention of the will of parents? If you’ve got kids in public school, be very afraid. The schools are becoming Orwellian purveyors of propaganda, and are doing a great job of getting kids to ‘inform’ the ‘authorities’ of the idiosyncrasies of parents. Who knew that the East German idea of employing children to root out their parent’s unorthodox thoughts would catch fire in the self-professed bastion of freedom?

(I am aware that the referenced incident happened in Canada - but similar stories abound in the good ole’ US of A)

If you hold any positions out of the mainstream (believe in creation, oppose group rights or ‘diversity’ for it’s own sake, advocate for small government), you should be concerned that the state has become the final arbiter of all things related to children. There are already those out there who argue that teaching children that creationism is correct is akin to child abuse. Do we really want these people (public school teachers, aides, administrators) superimposing their own judgment for those of parents, and reporting parents to the gestapo?

Makes me glad that all of my kids are going to be home-schooled.