This is the very same type of outright abuse we experienced at the local school corporation. Their police state, conformist, tool of choice was a local police liaison who was openly violating the laws and constitution she swore to protect.

 They believe  some type of faulty "belief system", that the actions school officials take while on school property or on their job capacities exempt them from the very laws that govern the rest of society. Working in a educational administration building does not make you "Gods" amongst men or give you any special privileges in society.

Just like us, the father in this case had done nothing wrong and was simply doing what his "parental rights" and rights as any free American allow him to do, love about this country freely.
This isn't Russia, Iran or Iraq. where you have to show paper's to move between check points but that nightmarish 1984 style world is coming ever close, daily. (link)
  

“I’m not raising my voice, I’m not confrontational, I want my kids,” Howe states in the video.

“You don’t need a reason as a parent to go get your children. They are our children.”

 This man's only crime, not listening to a school board's rule/ decision that the only way parent's can come in person to pick up there children after 2 pm is for those in the car line to wait in a car line that stretches out into the highway running besides the highway which is dangerous and often blocks traffic.

And, you have to wait till 2:35 pm to get your children and wait in a line that sometimes lasts 1-2 hours long.

And of course as most officer's of the law do, the Sheriff stands behind his man and refuses to look at the obviously criminal, civil rights violation caught on the cell phone recorded video: 

As the video shows, Howe was arrested by Aytes for disorderly conduct. Deputy Aytes tells 6 News he’s unable to comment because this is an open case.

 Cumberland County Sheriff Butch Burgess, whom Howe calls to complain in the video, says he hasn’t seen the video and doesn’t need to, because it won’t tell the whole story. He says Aytes was just doing his job, According to 6 News.

But, the ever personable Sheriff Burgess, does admit, maybe the citizen who did nothing wrong has a point:

  The sheriff says he agrees with Howe that the new policy is creating safety concerns along the highway outside the school. “On the other hand, the school system needs to realize you can’t make a black and white law,” Burgess said.

This is the horrible criminal and communist like attitudes present in our school's today.
Most likely this guy will get a lawyer, get the charges dropped and sue for obvious "civil rights" violations and false arrest.

They actively follow this national example and actively engaged in similar civil rights violations here at local Rochester Public School Corporation - Independent School Corporation #535 and if I had to be a betting man, I bet they are doing the same to other parents who often question their immoral or unethical behaviors.

I commend this man for taking a brave, righteous stand and I implore other parents across the nation to stand up to tyranny and oppression in schools and do the same.

 I kept hearing this theme, over and over from the lady who runs the homeschooling program in the Rochester Public School Corporation - Independent School District #535 when we signed the kids out of their school's.

The thing is, I had already done extensive research on the subject and  I have detailed knowledge of the fact that homeschool kids can go to college, often do and many times are as is or more successful than their public school counterparts.

This was from an email I received inviting us to an event were a meeting and training event was going to take place on this very subject.  

Lynn Norby, to help us during our discussion on this topic.

Lynn is a veteran home school Mom, who started the MCGT Homeschool Chapter and STAR Academy. She has 4 grown children whom she homeschooled (some part-time and some full-time). 

Her children have each gone on to very successful college careers (including Notre Dame, the U of MN, and SJU). Lynn has very helpful information and examples for putting together a homeschool transcript necessary for college admissions.

 The lady quite literally must have repeated it 25 times and before finally giving me the paper I needed to sign and turn into the school corporation making our declaration to the superintendent within 15 days.
I hate people, who when they speak to you, act like the words coming out of their mouths are the "words of God" and you must down down and start kissing the very feet they walk on.

I, even in my research, have found many websites similar to education-portal.com (link),
which offer online courses anyone can and test out on with accredited exams, accepted by thousands of colleges nation wide.  

I expected this treatment, as the majority of the people we have encountered at the administration building so far have been very high strung and really have serious "God" complexes that need to be addressed.
If you do not give them the respect they demand regardless of whether or not they deserve it, you run into serious problems as we did, as they get off on control and conformity, and bucking this trend does not fit their narrow minded, robot like view of life.  

I know how bad public school's are in America.
The local educator's know the lasting destructive effects' of "No Child Left Behind" and now, "Common Core" that is being implanted right now.
Even teacher's I know personally, who communicate with me on Facebook regularly, weren't surprised when they read the blog/ Facebook posts and were told about the shitty, unethical, harassing things local school administrator's kept doing to us.
They, as teacher's have experienced a lot of the same unethical, unprofessional, ill willed driven, malicious behaviors from those directly above them.

"In life, your either part of the answer, or part of the problem", many in school administration create the problems and hinder, easy, almost common sense solutions to many of the common problems great teachers face who actually care.   

Treatment like what we experienced is not unique.
Very bad school leadership is following the same template all across the country, and this, like with daily egregious American civil right's violations seen in the press, people are educating themselves and saying in mass, "we are not going to take this shit anymore".  

Educator's need to remember this key fact. 

You use local property tax dollars, federal/ state treasury funds allotted to you through various funding scheme's, so I, as a federal. state and local tax payer, American citizen and active voter are one of your many bosses you work for...  

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Our kids new and proper educational journey started today.
Technically, we use situations and things happening in their lives to teach them life lessons and practices of good citizenship, so this is just an extension of what we were already doing.

Writing and reading exercise's are going well. Both kids are using their own Khan Academy accounts we created and we are pooling from resources from the MHA, Echo-MN and Cickschooling daily emails we both receive. Math and fan fiction writing exercises went on great and were well received. Both kids have a blog and are being encouraged to write every day about things that excite them.
The Khan Academy (link here) is such a great dynamic website and resource, I personally do not know why public schools don't tap into the resource often to enhance the curriculum offered to student's.

My wife, the better half is a grammar Nazi, a very good, talented writer and enjoys art, reading, world history, political science,  usage of proper English and proper grammar.
She excels at foreign languages including German, Japanese and some Spanish. Linguistics just comes easy to her. 
She was also a National Choir Award winner and has an amazing voice and singing ability.

I, dad, enjoy and excel at math, science, world and American history, social studies and art/ music.
I won national writing and school spirit/ achievement awards in school, lettered in band multiple times, and was the person fortunate enough to have the privilege of certain "life lessons" from a very active involvement in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts most of my later school years.

People often pre-judge us, and assume we are stupid, uneducated, moron's when that is exactly the opposite of reality in our lives. People use our "middle class" range income and lack of a desire to be oppressed by their conformity based lives and agenda's to come to the faulty assumptions.
I, like my wife, have strong desires for advanced degree's in certain subject's we are passionate and knowledgeable about, but we put our kids needs in front of ours by choice.
Having a child with two rare chromosome disorders and autism, means him and his care is often a full time job by itself.
He continues to grow and get better, our desires don't get scrapped, they just get put on hold till a more proper time and situation allows for them.   
What great, caring and loving parent or parents doesn't put their kids first in the pecking order of life?

My first-aid training helped me save my younger brother's life 4 times and other family/ acquaintance's multiple times as I don't freak out under pressure and have the God given gift to think and act quickly on my feet. 
Both a miracle and blessing when a restaurant manager or in a "life or death" situation's unraveling right before your eyes.

I and my wife, use those learned skills and life lessons to help our kids become better people on a daily basis.

We both have extensive technological backgrounds and a strong desire to integrate new tech into our kids education.
Why not use the things kids are somewhat addicted to and love as educational platforms?
Videos games, YouTube, blogs, I pads, Android tablets, ect., its' all within the realm of possibilities if educator's actually try to think outside of the box in making education exciting and actively participate in engaging students.

Plus we both enjoy active involvement and engage in discussions related to American and World politics, social-economic issues and political sciences and economics in general.

We seek out non MSM resources for news and situations and try to look at things going on in the world from a independent voter view point. We both like to debate the good and bad of certain political events and it often leads to exciting and interesting conversations.

I am more than confident, "We got this" and will continue to fill our kids minds full of facts, figures and information to help them become active, fully engaged, citizens of tomorrow!



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As I stated in my reply email below I screen capped, more mind games and stupidity run rampant are in play at my daughters old school Bamber Valley Elementary, part of:

Rochester Public Schools - Independent School District #535!.

I'm beyond happy and glad that we chose to take the homeschool route now. 

Either this is another mistake or a boneheaded, malicious, mind game designed by get at us.

We both are once again laughing, enjoying another glaring example of the horrible culture of ignorance at the leadership level and another communications break down... 

This was an another deliberate swipe and poorly attempted personal attack involving an over glorified librarian that isn't in the know regarding the situation that transpired Friday at the home base of the Rochester School Crime family leadership, the Edison Building.

A simple prior arrangement that that was in place was made with no problems.
They would find our daughters coat and bring any personal effects that was in my teen sons locker who went to Mayo to the Homeschooling head, we would at pick up, drop off any school materials we had still.

Open communication is a nightmare here and with the use of cell phones, I pads and email systems, the head here often has no clue what the as is doing.

Once again, who with a brain would want their kids in this district?


Update: My wife replied with a strong and terse worded email reply explaining this has been taken care of and like many things happening in the school district, is beyond her pay grade.

And in the email, it seems my wife was quoted retail cost of replacing the books.
Schools are not taxed entities and often receive volume and educator's discounts when buying materials as they purchase so much in bulk.

Ouch, that whole "Knowledge is Power" thing stings sometimes...