Another School Uses Bullies Against Disabled Child

A twelve year old boy with Aspergers Syndrome, a form of autism, is hospitalized with a cracked skull now, because his classmates at Liberty Middle School in Liberty Missouri thought that beating him up in the cafeteria was a good example of social skills. A bigger kid took the boy's backpack and moved it away from his seat, during lunch. After all, why not? Who is an autistic child to argue with a big, athletic, monster whose behavior is reinforced by a school that does nothing to stop constant assaults by the same bully? After all, in unified school districts, each school can pretty much do as it pleases, and bullies are a great way to get rid of disabled students.

The administration of the public school in Frankfort, Kansas attempted the same with a disabled child in the same grade as the child who was injured at Liberty Middle School. The principal waited until the state and federal "enrollment dollars" came in for each student, then encouraged some bigger boys, two grades ahead of the disabled child, to beat him up in a shower stall in the boys locker room. No teacher was present at the time. Afterward, the principal, Dean Dalinghaus, called the boy's parents and lied, blaming the boy!  He was actually planning to expel the victim, because he doesn't like autistic children. The truth came out when one of the bullies bragged about the incident to the disabled child's older sister. Dean Dalinghaus almost crapped himself when he found out that the Americans With Disabilities Act is a real thing.

At Liberty Middle School, there have been other incidents involving the same bully and the same victim. In the past, the school has ignored all of it. This time, the victim spent four days in the hospital with serious injuries, so ignoring it and telling the parent that her child is not as important as a football player was not an option. Because of that, Liberty Middle School is "investigating the incident". So are police: the bully is currently in juvenile detention. Frankfort, on the other hand, did not bother to take any action against bullying.

Mom And Dad Fight Back

This video features Russian immigrant parents who live in California, and have a sick baby, who has had heart surgery. The mother was concerned about her baby's care, and transferred him to a different hospital. Then, after the baby was discharged from the second hospital, the first hospital sent child protective services to visit the parents! Child protective services took a bunch of arrogant cops along, and one of them even began to pull his gun out of the holster when the mother asked to see a warrant for the visit. Then  they proceeded to grab the baby and take him to an undisclosed location, telling the mother that it was "irrational" for her to want to know where! Now a lawsuit has been filed against child protective services and the hospital.

Meanwhile, back in Northeast Kansas, a young couple who happen to be the parents of two active toddlers recently got a knock on their door from child protective services. The couple told child protective services that they wanted to see the warrant before they came inside the house. The social worker did not have a warrant, but pretended to call someone, to get a warrant. Unfortunately, the couple fell for the bluff, and it most certainly WAS a bluff; no judge in his right mind would actually grant a warrant for the reason child protective services visited this family. It seems that someone had called child protective services on these parents because their children often go about barefoot!

What really happened in the "case of the barefoot children" was that someone felt like picking on the childrens' parents and called child protective services. Child protective services knew that this couple is not rich, and as they are both very young, possibly did not know their rights. Also, the family is white, and many perspective adoptive parents ask specifically for white babies and toddlers. Had Kansas gone ahead and snatched those children, their parents may never have seen them again. It's a big moneymaker in Kansas. And that's why certain teachers and school administrators should really stop calling child protective services every time they decide they do not like a parent. Since Affirmative Action is almost meaningless in Kansas, most of the chronic CPS callers are white, and have white children. And since white children are exactly for whom most perspective adoptive parents in Kansas place orders, guess who could also be targeted......? That's right; the next time a fair skinned blond child belonging to a chronic CPS caller gets a sunburn, or plays in the park or in the street unattended, as per the habit of Northeast Kansas, the parents of the barefoot toddlers may pick up their phone! After all, if it works for one vindictive jerk, it can work for another. Income, age, education, and experience with life may or may not make a difference if you enrage innocent parents enough by attempting to engage child protective services because the parents change health care providers or allow their children to go barefoot. It's only a phone call.

 

Social Services Grabbed A Newborn For What?

In April of 2013, Elizabeth Mort, of Pennsylvania, ate a bagel that was made with poppy seeds. Then she went to the hospital and gave birth to a baby girl. The staff at Jameson Hospital in Lawrence County is lucky, because when I go into labor, I always stop at Taco Bell en route, and eat as many seven layer burritos as I can before arriving at the hospital; yet when they did their wonderful drug tests on Mort, with their wonderfully inflated prices for the insurance company to cover, they used a standard of 300 nanograms per milliliter as a guideline of THC, and of otherwise being a doper, rather than the federally accepted 2000 nanograms per milliliter. This allowed the residue from the poppyseed bagel to appear in the test results.

Three days later, while Mort was at home with her new daughter, social services stormed her house and took her baby away. The hospital had telephoned social services with news of a positive drug test, with no mention of the comparison of the results of said drug test to federal standards, and had thus made a false report. While it only took five days for Mort to get her daughter back, it took three years to settle the lawsuit, which was finally settled this past week. The ACLU got involved on Mort's behalf.

Why would a child be taken from a parent over a lab result that was not even current information? Why would a child be taken from a parent over a violation of a prohibition law? After all, we do not routinely remove children from the homes of people who get cited for DWI. Why is marijuana so much more important? If there was no indication of fetal distress because of drugs, why did the hospital order a test for drugs? Why did the hospital order the test without the patient's knowledge? When the test came back flagged as a false positive, why didn't the hospital discuss it with the patient immediately? Was the hospital more interested in snagging a newborn and helping the state to sell it, rather then finding out if the patient had a substance abuse problem? These are all questions that anyone of either gender planning on becoming a parent should want answered before choosing an hospital for the birth.

The ACLU insisted that Jameson Hospital and Pennsylvania come into compliance and stop harassing families, but what about your state? It's clearly time to rethink the importance of family, legalize marijuana, (no, I am NOT a cannabis indulger) or do both.