I don't think any of that is happening. They take the money to fund it with guns. I do not think think they're using these school programs to harass parents or push themselves into parents' lives. The parents can just take their kids out of the school if they don't like it. It's there fore people who completely don't have their act together.

yes, but the problem is the fact that the government
programs are backed by government guns. . those
with power tend to exert that power whimsically, to
sustain their jobs and expand their power plus the
pay for their work. . then, they take the kids from
the poor, hardscrabble homeschooling family and
violate the hell out of their rights. . like Fred Thompson
said in Red October, "This is gonna get out of hand." -- j
.

I do not condone this notion of children and parents as equal partners (WTF, I know), but I think I understand where it's coming from. This is about troubled kids. I know someone who's parents had troubles with drugs and alcohol, and the the schools in the 80s filled in the gaps of things his parents should have done. His parents were addicts and didn't have a church, stable friends, and other things to fill in the gaps. Today he's a successful person who abstains from even social drinking and has avoided any repeat of his parents' problems. Ideally family and private orgs like churches would have filled in the gaps. I don't have an ideal solution, but the gov't acting has backup parents

What I see happening now, is the schools cater even more than in the 80s toward helping kids with troubled families.

I don't think there's much danger that they'll be partners of any sort to people like the ones in the linked article who claimed their school was proselytizing. They'll just move their kids out. I see that happening more. I heard today of someone whose kids go to public school one day a week, to a private program one day, and to an academically accredited home-based program three days.

So as odd as it sounds I support the schools doing this hand-holding for needy families. If it works, it much cheaper and less intrusive than waiting until the kids grow up and need to be managed by the criminal justice system.

Yes. . in the gulch, keepers would be okay, since we
share a philosophy. . selfish interest in others is a
corollary of respect! -- j
.

The government lets us be equal partners in the raising of our own children. Spoken with a Southern drawl, "Oh, isn't that nice? It's right neighborly of them."

A "Brothers' Keeper" chapter in AS: Now Non-Fiction should include this topic.