| Some public schools try to turn children
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| | Down Our Kids," illustrates this
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| against their parents with scary
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| | disturbing anti-parent campaign by many
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| classroom stories or lessons about child
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| | public schools across the country:
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| abuse. Public school authorities have
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| | "I first became aware of the protective
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| increasingly decided that they are
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| | behaviors curriculum when a mother called
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| children's first line of defense against
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| | me to tell me of an experience she had
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| child abuse. This new attitude falls
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| | with her daughter. Her child, an
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| under what is now known as "protective
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| | elementary schoolgirl, had come home in
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| behavior curriculum."
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| | tears. When she saw that her mother was
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| The assumptions behind this curriculum
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| | home and waiting for her, she rushed to
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| are that every child needs to be warned
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| | her in relief. AI wasn't sure you'd be
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| about and prepared for possible dangers
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| | here, she told her mother. Her mother
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| of verbal, physical, and sexual abuse
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| | reassured her that she would always be
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| because allegedly every child is a
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| | there for her. In school that day, her
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| potential victim, not only of strangers
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| | daughter told her, her class had
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| but of his or her own family.
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| | discussed "bad" touching including
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| Increasingly, school authorities instruct
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| | spanking.
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| teachers to ask children questions about
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| | "In the course of the discussion,
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| their parents' behavior and actions
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| | children had been encouraged to share
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| toward them at home. The questions amount
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| | with the teachers and classmates whether
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| to asking kids to spy on their parents
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| | they had ever been touched in that way
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| and report incidents that make them feel
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| | and the girl had said that her mother had
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| "uncomfortable." Some school authorities
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| | spanked her. The children were also told
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| use such tales by children to investigate
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| | that people who engaged in bad touching
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| or file charges of child abuse against
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| | would be taken away and put in jail. For
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| parents who often did no more than yell
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| | the rest of the school day the girl was
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| at their children or spank them lightly.
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| | terrified that her mother who had spanked
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| In effect, to allegedly protect children,
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| | her would now be taken away and locked up
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| some school authorities now consider all
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| | for her bad touching."
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| parents as potential abusers, use
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| | Parents, it might be wise to periodically
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| children to invade parents' privacy, or
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| | ask your children if their teachers ask
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| make kids afraid of their parents. Often,
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| | them personal questions about your family
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| children are disturbed and emotionally
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| | or how you discipline your children.
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| traumatized by the insinuations school
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| | Turning children into spies against their
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| authorities put into their heads.
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| | parents or making them afraid of their
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| The following incident described by
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| | parents is not what parents pay school
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| Charles J. Sykes, in his book "Dumbing
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| | taxes for.
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