GOVERNMENT AIMS TO MAKE LIFE RISK-FREE WHETHER WE WANT IT OR NOT
LAST NIGHT I came back to my computer late, after spending the day with my almost 11-month-old grandson, and read the utterly ridiculous story about the proud 6-year old cub scout suspended from school because his new pocket knife dropped out of his jacket on the school bus. It's the kind my own son cherished and adored for years when he too was a cub.
Now it seems such boyish things have been criminalized by the over-cautious and uber-feminized Nanny state.
If we think this goes beyond the bounds of government intervention gone beserk and psycho, just wait till we let health care reform pass. Again, whatever zero tolerance rule for weapons was passed in Zachery's school system that seemed like a good idea at the time was a farce. It was done by immature bureaucrats for their own protection from sanity and the need for human judgment and intervention . It was also done under the grand illusion that some rule can suspend bad things from happening in schools and in life.
God help Zachery and his family to escape this nonesense and ultimately this school system. And God save us all from the continuing and ever-expanding reach of the Nanny state that thinks it knows what's best for us and how best to effect it. God save us from thinking another rule will make our lives risk-free.
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I understand why so many parents home school their children. The "nanny" mentality that saturates our society is metastatic. Frustrating!
ReplyDeleteMe too. But then we run the risk of being helicopter parents who sincerely believe we can be good enough, smart enough, in control enough to believe we can keep our children and us from all risk, all pain and heartache and ultimately all learning. And, from my experience, it just ain't so.
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