~Abusing kids to see if they are being abused!~

In East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania in March 1996, almost 50 sixth grade girls were given unclothed gynecological exams without the permission of the parents and against the objections of many of the girls.

Katie Tucker, a mother, told the Washington Times that when the embarrassed disrobed girls learned that they would be forced to submit to "spread-eagle" genital exams...

"...they were scared. They were crying and trying to run out the door, but one of the nurses blocked the door so they couldn't leave. My daughter told the other nurse that "My mother wouldn't like this. I want to call her." And they said, "No." My daughter said, "I don't want this test done." And the nurse said, "Too bad." -Washington Times, 4/27/96, p. A1-

The doctor, when asked if some of the girls were crying said, "I don't remember." (Clinton-Era Tradition?) The Pocono Record in its report added that the doctor, Ramlah Vahanvaty, said:

"Even a parent doesn't have the right to say what's appropriate for a physician to do when they're doing an exam." -Pocono, Pa. Record, 3/22/96-

8-8-1999- $7,500 awarded to some of the girls for 4th Amendment Civil Rights violation. 
See editorial in Abilene Reporter News

Such incidents are not limited to Pennsylvania. Forbes magazine in its December 16, 1996 issue reported:

"In the summer of 1993 Betsy Grice of Owensboro, Kentucky took her 11 -year-old daughter to the local elementary school for the checkup she needed before starting sixth grade. Grice was shocked to learn that the doctor intended to give the child a genital examination. Turns out it's required by the Department of Education. Why? "The reason they said was to catch abuse at an early age," recalls Grice (not her real name). Who authorized the intrusive program? Not the state legislature. The program, imposed by state bureaucrats, was bankrolled by the private Annie B. Casey Foundation." -Forbes, 12/16/96, p.123-

Camille Wagner, leader of a grassroots movement of Kentucky parents and teachers opposed to school officials usurping parents' rights asked:

"They abuse them (the girls) to see if anybody else is abusing them?"

 Parents are finding increasingly that they have no rights.

"Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school." --Federal District Judge Melinda Harmon

Judge Harmon made that ruling against the parents after the parents sued a Texas school district. Their son had been questioned at school without their knowledge, and strip searched by a female Texas Children's Protective Services worker looking for signs of paddling the boy's parents had allegedly administered. -Wall St. Journal 10/8/96-

And these are just a FEW of the reasons we are homeschooling.

Any questions?