Show Notes: Knock, Knock It’s Darth

Let The Right Darth In

Michigan is sweeping toward a surveillance state, with the Department of Education pursuing those who want to instruct their own kids.  Homeschoolers may have to register their children with local districts if the State gets it’s way, with Democrats calling to require frequent check-ins to prevent abuse of children at the hands of the own parents.

The impetus for this move is based on a case handled by Michigan AG Dana “Darth” Nessel where a foster family, which happens to homeschool, was accused of abusing the foster children.  Never mind that CPS has oversight already over foster families and this has no connection to home schooling families. 

https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2023/12/06/michigan-ag-lawmakers-call-for-homeschool-oversight-amid-abuse-cases/71810884007/

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and a Democratic state lawmaker are calling for more state oversight into homeschooling following recent reports of child abuse where officials say homeschool helped conceal mistreatment by caregivers.

Israel Wayne, with the Michigan Christian Homeschool Network, said that his organization believes additional oversight would not decrease reports of child abuse. Instead, Wayne said cases such as the Flore and Brown case should lead to more calls into accountability over Children’s Protective Services.

“But there’s often failure on the part of Child Protective Services to adequately prosecute known cases of child abuse,” he said. “And so we would see many of these cases as being reflective more of a systemic problem within Child Protective Services than a systemic problem within home education.”