IMPD: Please report children that you think should be in school

[88GT]

This came across my email today. I don't know whether to laugh or be concerned.

HSLDA Staff Attorney Tj Schmidt will speak tomorrow before the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) Taskforce about homeschooling.
Last month a few members contacted us after receiving their copy of the IMPD Southwest Taskforce Newsletter via email. In the main article about school starting up again, the author urged people to:

“Please report children that you think should be in school. Call 911 and ask for an officer to check on the children. Truancy is a growing concern to all of us. We need to find these children and determine which school they should be attending.”​

Needless to say, this advice alarmed many homeschool families.

So much fail on so many levels.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

This came across my email today. I don't know whether to laugh or be concerned.



So much fail on so many levels.

Well, yes and no. If a kid at least appears to be at their home, with some kind of adult supervision, then it's probably okay. If they're wandering the streets? Not so much.

 

[VUPDblue]

Well, yes and no. If a kid at least appears to be at their home, with some kind of adult supervision, then it's probably okay. If they're wandering the streets? Not so much.

Bingo

 

[88GT]

It's not about the kids who are home. It's about the kids who might be out and about.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

You mean you don't get homeschooling credit for "free market pharmaceutical sales"?

Maybe at the L. Neil Smith Charter School?

 

[88GT]

I can give homeschool credit for whatever the heck I want.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Homeschool Story Problem:

If Ice Dog has 14 grams of crack and Cledus has two Xanax and four heavy suboxone pills, how many votes were stolen from Ron Paul in the primary?

Show your work here=>_____________________________

 

[88GT]

Too little info. How far behind is the Republican candidate?

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Homeschool Story Problem:

If Ice Dog has 14 grams of crack and Cledus has two Xanax and four heavy suboxone pills, how many votes were stolen from Ron Paul in the primary?

Show your work here=>_____Spoons________________________

Close?

 

[Denny347]

It's not about the kids who are home. It's about the kids who might be out and about.

During the day, our burglars are mostly kids who should be in school. It's a very big problem.

 

[ModernGunner]

Homeschooling may be a substitute for public schooling, truancy is not.

 

[level.eleven]

You should laugh, obviously. It is an email from the HSLDA. What else are those emails good for?

 

[HoughMade]

During the day, our burglars are mostly kids who should be in school. It's a very big problem.

Now I find out my kids could have been out earning.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Now I find out my kids could have been out earning.

I know, right? Esrice, does MSL have a minimum age for its lockpicking class? I'm asking for a friend.

 

[TaunTaun]

The part that FIRST caught my eye was requesting that they dial 911. Calling an emergency line for a non-emergency? Yeaaaaaah....
Must be for those kids out playing in the park within eye sight of their house that needs all this special attention. That way they can get CPS involved too.

 

[steveh_131]

You should laugh, obviously. It is an email from the HSLDA. What else are those emails good for?

I do so enjoy seeing them get this sort of response from the statists.

It gives me confidence that I'm on the right track.

As to the OP, everyone needs to mind their own business. No good will come of this. If IMPD is concerned about burglary, they should spend more time patrolling and less time ticketing.

 

[HoughMade]

Haven't you heard? Teaching kids anything other than the statist agenda is child abuse.

 

[pshinn]

I don't home school my kids but I should be able to without being harassed by any government agency.

i know many home school families and the partners in most cases have the ability to teach at level of or above those taught to students in local school systems..

are there exceptions... Yep

as for Marion County there are other concerns...

 

[pshinn]

They want to outlaw homeschooling in California (blue state)

but are any of us surprised?

 

[pshinn]

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