In Hartford It's Homeschooling vs DCF

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And many you listened to some of the Democratic legislators yesterday,
they were like, they can have very clear that we
are not trying to get rid of homeschoolers. We fully
support them. However, we're going to regulate them, and we
need to know what you're doing, when you're doing it,
and why you're doing it. If they look at and
this is something the Apartment of Ed actually spoke about yesterday.
They actually stated that homeschool kids in Connecticut have a

(00:24):
much higher rating on the GED testing than our kids
in public schools, So you have that. The other thing
they stated, out of just anything they could come up with,
they came up with one homeschool cake where there was abuse. However,
they stated that DCF had been involved with that family
for many years. It was almost like they weren't They

(00:45):
didn't think we were smart enough to hear the fact that, oh,
we're so proud that DCF had been involved for many years. Well,
what the heck was DCF doing. If you needed to
be involved with that home for many years, that child
should have been removed and maybe placed in a nice
adoptive home where they could have had a future, versus
keeping them at a home of continued abuse for years.
What is that about? So, in my mind, Benny, this

(01:07):
whole issue. They're trying to use this Waterbury tragedy as
a home school issue. Yeah, that wasn't a funk issue.
There was no paperwork, no paperwork trail ever submitted to
a school, a town, anything the state that they were
homeschooling that child. They just removed him and DCF is
a colossal failure in that case and many others. Quite honestly,

(01:28):
I actually consider this a scandal on the state's part,
and even going as far as saying it would be
a scandal on the Democratic Party because they know that
this is a state issue with DCF that has absolutely
nothing to do with homeschoolers. They have no evidence of
any problem, if anything, that the education is actually better
for these homeschool children.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
But now the parents who are there pro homeschooling, which
I totally I even toyed with it for a while
and I would have been out of my depth too,
But post Sandy Hook, I think a lot of us
kicked around, Like I know, I said to my I've
talked to myself anything else resembling this, Like I'm on
the precipice of making that kind of move. I don't

(02:11):
think there's anybody who is. I'm taking my kid out
of school, I'm going to homeschool. Who would care about
a knock on the door, just check and making sure
everything's okay? Because one visit to that Waterbury home one
and they would have known, we got to get this
kid out of here.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh no, Benny, they did visit that.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
So they say.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
But here is the caveat they gave yesterday, they said,
but if a parent won't allow us in the home,
we are not allowed to enter. We have to get
a court order. To get a court.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Order, Yeah, how hard is it to get?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
No, it's called laziness, it's called we don't care, and
it's just lack of doing your job. So that this
whole thing has absolutely nothing to do at all with homeschoolers.
Once they stick their feet in it, Once we start
getting our feet in this, parents are going to lose control.
And this is hard enough as it is. It's a
homeschoolyard child. I would think it takes a lot of

(03:10):
dedication in time. Yeah, I have these parents. I mean
there was thousands up there yesterday, most of who had
their kids with them because they're at home. These kids
will well behaved by the thousands. Yeah, I mean, this
is no argument to go into this other than they
want to cover up for the problems there is with
the state and defer