BREAKING: Federal Government Accepts Complaint Against Connecticut’s DCF — On the Eve of Thursday’s Floor Debate
Republished with permission from AbleChild
On Thursday, Connecticut lawmakers take to the House floor to vote on HB 5468. A bill that would force every family withdrawing a child from public school into an automatic DCF referral and government approval process before they can legally homeschool. Tonight, the ground just shifted beneath that vote.
Attorney Deborah G. Stevenson, founder of the National Home Education Legal Defense (NHELD), has announced that the U.S. Department of Justice has officially accepted NHELD’s formal complaint against Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families — Docket #715248 — and forwarded it to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for further investigation. The federal government is now doing what Connecticut’s own officials have refused to do for eight years.
The Waterbury child was reported to DCF for abuse and neglect repeatedly. DCF got involved. That child was then held captive for twenty years, until he set his own house on fire to escape. The little girl in New Britain was in DCF’s files from the day she was born, taken from her mother at birth due to neglect convictions. DCF later returned her to that same mother. Her body was found stuffed in a storage bin. Eleven-year-old Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres García was murdered while Connecticut’s oversight apparatus was actively in place around her, with DCF accepting a staged Zoom call as proof she was alive. A child in Hartford starved to death in 2018, also on DCF’s watch.
Not one of these children was homeschooled. Every one of these tragedies happened on DCF’s watch, inside the very system this bill would now expand.
Since 2018, NHELD has demanded an independent investigation of DCF. Eight years. Repeated calls. Complete silence from every Connecticut official who had the power to act. Instead of investigating the agency responsible, they blamed homeschoolers, families who had nothing to do with Waterbury, New Britain, Mimi, or Hartford. Attorney Stevenson called it exactly what it is: a calculated move to deflect scrutiny from DCF and use the deaths of children as political cover to regulate a community they have long sought to control.
Tomorrow’s floor debate isn’t about child safety. It is about an agency, now under federal scrutiny, protecting itself from the accountability it has spent eight years avoiding, using the names of children it failed to do it.
Homeschoolers and Connecticut citizens flooded the Capitol and overwhelmed the process, thousands strong between those who stood in line through the night to testify in person and the waves of families who filed written testimony from across the state.
Tonight, with Docket #715248 now in federal hands, the record is clear: the problem was never the homeschoolers. Lawmakers should reject this bill to ensure that federal probe findings are disclosed.
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Is that a state?
Kids in public schools are MONEY for the Teacher’s Union.
That’s all they care about. The Per Diem they get for each body in a seat.
They put all their efforts into attendence. Education has long stopped!
Well, there’s also the indoctrination. They care about that too.
And the brainwashing.
Indoctrination = Brainwashing
Good.
CT wants to automatically treat homeschooled kids as victims of abuse? This is just more Marxist attempt to control and destroy parental authority. That and they want to indoctrinate kids at all costs. Get government out of our lives.
Government – "if you think our problems are bad wait until you see our solutions!"
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It SUCKS BIGLY that I have to go outside this article to find out what the TLA "DCF" stands for!
Ditto, the writer breaks a common rule of writing by failing to define acronyms when they're first used in an article.
Millennials.
Department of Children & Families (DCF)
you could have done what you complained about.
Typical for news people.
Not just news, basic business writing skills callout acronyms when first used. The sentence in question should have been, "A bill that would force every family withdrawing a child from public school into an automatic Department of Children & Families (DCF) referral . . ."
I didn’t have to go elsewhere, but it took me a couple of minutes too.
That makes me not care. Just checking out the comments.
Could not do it youerself ? ? ?/ Department of Children & Families (DCF)
What does it stand for?
Department of Children and Families
I deduced that by reading the article in full
If you've ever had interaction with such an agency, just the sound of those letters will send chills down the back. They are bad, bad, bad news. Like hearing KGB, Stasi, Gestapo, etc. Zero accountability.
Ha! I had to do the same thing! If a writer uses Acronyms Spell it out at least once!!
Need to use real pictures rather than AI. We get enough fake stuff with main stream media!
Absolutely. I turn off anything right or left once I smell AI
That image as well as the vast majority of this post by Joe was taken directly from the Ablechild web site. That original article is also word-cloud, not really clearly describing the problem…so many "articles" here assume the reader is already up on the topic. Sometimes I dont know what locality they are referring to until I see what news department is bieng cited for the story…and oddly enough, many of those local TV stations for instance dont even state what state they are in on their own web sites!
Yeah, like what is DCF they refer to a dozen times.
Department of Children and Families
I deduced that by reading the article
If I hadn't been following this story, I would have been lost!
Basic facts.
The children mentioned were killed by their parent or guardian but were pulled out of school, some with the pretext of being home schooled. All were cases were under scrutiny by child protective services at the time.
Because these children were not enrolled in school, democrats seizing the chance of more power, and are trying to pass a law that makes it almost impossible to home school at home, citing "Save the children". "If the children were enrolled in school, the teachers would have reported absences, therefore saving lives".
Sound good? Oh no! The state would then have "rights" to access and inspect the grounds on which one is home schooling! Plus other invasion and control tactics I can't think of off the top of my head.
I swear there ought to be a bounty on liberal progressives!
An excellent sentiment that will not be pursued here.
99% wouldn't notice that. That picture is how the fake media works every day, every article, every 'news' video. Staged!
Imagine the horror of news sites that don't allow comments so nobody points out fakery…
Here is an example of an article that would be better off with no picture at all.
Dead on. The media did in fact create the modern Islamic threat out of thin air.
Edit: And the current racial tensions, and gender tensions, etc, etc.
The media did not create the Islamic threat. The media tried to ignore it for 30 years till it blew up in our faces.
That is untrue. They created global jihad theatrics with camera angles on CIA paid crowds.
DCF DCF DCF DCF
How about telling us what the F DCF stands for?
You, too? Dept of Children & Families.
Define your acronyms. DCF? Dwarf Confederation of Florida? Designer Cookie Factory?
Connetishit and New York are both communist states and have been for decades. Super high property, corporate, personal, this, that Taxes. And they both hate guns.
Keep voting for Democrats, Connecticut!
Want to turn your beautiful state into a cesspool of crime, corruption, high taxes and homelessness real quick?
Put democrats in power.
The school systems are no longer about educating your kids. They're more about indoctrination. The main reasons they don't want you homeschooling are getting federal money to feed their greed and controlling your kids for the next generations.
If it passes just leave CT.
It’s not really the be all end all place in the country
Don't they teach people in journalism school to not use acronyms without defining them? What is DCF, Discounted cash flow?
Despots Controlling Families
I would have thought everyone knew what it stood for.
CHEAP SHOT !!!!!
I will tell why the law makers froze: many States have given this agency so much power and no reasonable manner of appeal, that it would go after the legislator's families if an attempt to rein in the agency was made. These agencies are typically run and manned by the least qualified DEI hires with college degrees of absolutely no value, grievance study degrees, and the pink and blue haired freaks are as fearless in their use of authority as they are in their street protests and Antifa meetups.
Nothing more disgusting than a government worker who takes a salary for nothing.
Once again CT proving its not about children's safety but instead its ALL about money and control. Democrats are the most evil and morally corrupt people on this planet.
Any word yet on the 2,000 missing children from the Lahaina fires?
If the story were true that they were swept out to sea, surely most of the bodies would have been recovered by now, no? My concern is they were trafficked.
Amazing, grown adults have to be forced to do their jobs!
My guess is the push behind ending homeschooling starts with that damn teachers union.
How much do you want to bet the democrats in Connecticut will pass this bill anyway, over the objections of the people?
What objections?
Education (or indoctrination) is more important than most people consider!! The Globalist Left wants control of young people's minds. It's insidious and need to be fixed!
Public education is evil!!
Must remember …… the secular "State" rejects the LORD and that means they hate Him and what His Law says ….. Proverbs 8:36 ….. "All those who hate Me (the LORD) loves death" That is who they are and what they do
The fact it took 8 years to get the government involved is not remotely surprising. Child abuse IS the bread and butter of government. And their indoctrination centers are the key to destroying the minds of every minor child in their borders.
This article is not remotely surprising. None of these "oversights" are at all unique to Connecticut. This is business as usual in every single one of the 50 states!
It is flabbergasting that the federal leviathan has acknowledged there is a problem. It will be literally unheard of – as in has never happened before in 250 years – if they DO anything about it. This really exposes of the undiluted EVIL that infests every department at every level of government. And why one man was never going to "FIX" it.
They WILL make it impossible to avoid their indoctrination mills. If they aren't stopped.
Alternatives to ideologically compromised public schools have at least the potential to make them consider changing to bring back students (and the funds they bring). Once the alternatives become prohibitive, then they no longer have any reason to try, and it will only get worse.
If it's lodged against a Dem it's a 99% chance it's true.
my daughter was a social worker in that liberal state of COMMIES and left because she could not take what was happening in that corrupt office. When she went to her supervisor on two different occasions about the abuse the kids under her watch were subjected to she was told to mind her own business. Well she could not watch it and left because she could not change anything to help them.
Connecticut (and the rest of New England) totally sucks. Why any Christian or conservative person would continue to stay there and live under that oppression simply boggles my mind.
TIME FOR ACCOUNTABILITY! You have to wonder how long these issues have been building, how many warnings may have been raised along the way, and how many families were impacted before it ever reached the point of federal attention.
The uncomfortable truth is that most of these systems are already aware of their own failures, but awareness doesn’t equal accountability, and without real consequences or structural change, these reviews tend to come and go without fixing what’s actually broken.
What about habitual liar Senator Chris Murphy? Isn’t he all about accountability and rule of law? Just kidding, Murphy is a celebrity TV tool for the global cabal.
One has to be naive to believe the Leftist in control will just give up the mandatory indoctrination of our youth's minds easily with out a fight. They will stomp on the Constitution and Bill of Rights like they always do to get their way when their power is threaten. Stopping them is a very daunting task.
Live debate now in the state house:
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ct-n dot com/CTNplayer.asp?livestream=2? what the …. is that?
URLs are blocked so they have to be broken apart.
Also cannot use specific character combinations.
ct-n (is the first part)
. (the second part, called dot)
com/CTNplayer.asp?livestream=2? (the third part)
Concatenate those in your address bar. Does that help?
The debate is still going on right now.
You didn't define DCF: Dept. of Children and Families
Since when do parents need approval from their "neighbors" to home school THEIR children?
Since deranged lunatic delusional brainwashed cry baby masked idiots had right to
confront and harass and attack rest of US who refused to wear MASK! that's when!
Since blue states have been trying to get rid of home schooling and take control of religious schools.
why is LGTBQXYZ filth still allowed in schools and libraries and woke teachers not arrested?
Debate still going. Opposition raising excellent criticisms.
You can immediately tell who is pushing this crap.
This legislation will need to go to the courts, it is unconstitutional and illegal on so many grounds.
Meanwhile, New Hampshire is getting more free with homeschooling.
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Debate still going. Opposition raising excellent criticisms.
This legislation will need to go to the courts, it is unconstitutional and illegal on so many grounds.
Meanwhile, New Hampshire is getting more free with homeschooling.