CPS Workers Now Being Installed In Public Schools (VIDEO)
By: Heather Callaghan, Activist Post |
NBC 2 News
is reporting a new “partnership” between the Erie County Department of
Social Services and New York public schools that would place a Child
Protective Services (CPS) employee in the Erie County local suburban
schools several days per week.
The media unsurprisingly reports this as
a way to give school staff faster access to child welfare “expertise”
and also “streamlining and expediting” the CPS investigation process.
That is, the news is being spun to get parents – who are now
seemingly potential criminals up for investigation – to accept this new,
intrusive development while your child remains a ward of the State for
eight hours a day, five days a week.
This partnership is unnecessary and
detrimental to children and parents. Teachers already can and do report
suspicions of child abuse which are dealt with swiftly by CPS with the
aid of law enforcement. By installing CPS workers in school offices, it
is inviting a steady stream of on-the-spot inspections without a parent’s knowledge. This is a removal of due process when an accusation of abuse is arbitrarily leveled at a parent.
Buffalo Public Schools may already have a similar partnership, and 22 school districts in Erie County have signed on with Social Services.
People who object to this move are aware
of the corrupt, past actions of CPS often taking children from good
homes and placing them with people who should not be anywhere near
children. Both CPS workers are foster parents are paid by the State for
this action while parents who are found later to have done nothing
detrimental are helpless and barely represented. Worse yet, children
become lost in the cracks, and often wind up abused and unnecessarily drugged.
People often ask – what do we do, there are
children being abused by parents. This is true, and those parents need
to be held accountable by their peers, but the government is currently
doing more tragic harm to such children who will later be exploited in
the criminal justice system, possibly filling cells and coffers for the private-corporate prison industry.
Given that the prison and CPS/foster sectors are subsidized by you, the
parents, you have every right to demand an overhaul. At the very least,
demands to leave CPS out
of schools until their act is cleaned up. A demand to stop
incentivising the removal of children from stable homes. Demands for
third party, unbiased investigations that inspect CPS practices, truly
represent the child and opt for less traumatic solutions such as
allowing a child in question to remain with siblings and stay with a
beloved and reputable family member. These are just a few ways to
address legitimate problems without running over innocent people and
revoking their rights for profit.
But, as the news report said: this is
just “streamlining.” They just don’t tell you what process is being
streamlined, but rather call the often unnecessary removal of kids from
their homes “child welfare.” Even though I know good-hearted social
workers and foster parents who live to serve children and families – the
checkered past actions of the system at large should warrant change –
not the ability to have more power. It should be a privilege to help
children, but the unaddressed, systemic abuse of them should signal that
these new changes have nothing to do with “the children.” No matter
what – parents have rights and the utmost responsibility to their children – are we just going to wave goodbye to them all?
H/T: Don’t Comply
Heather Callaghan is a natural health blogger and food freedom activist. You can see her work at NaturalBlaze.com and ActivistPost.com. Like at Facebook.
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