John Robson's must-read column

Here's an excerpt. Go over and read the whole thing and recognize the huge threat that statism poses to families:

Strip-searching a father because his four-year-old sketched a toy gun at school paints a perfect picture of progressive public education: absurd yet sinister.

On the Keystone Kops side, if police took the girl’s now-vanished doodle of her father fighting monsters and bad guys seriously, why not search his home for villains, or werewolves, before a gun? And why handcuff Jesse Sansone then strip-search him, including making him lift his personal bits? Don’t cops know a gun won’t fit down there? Did they also check his armpit for a tank, or his ear for a sword?

On the Big Nurse side, the police arrested Sansone for illegal possession of a firearm without any credible evidence he even had a gun, let alone illegally. They “walked through” his home without a warrant. Social services grabbed his three eldest children and interrogated his pregnant wife. And they are unrepentant.

Waterloo Regional School district superintendant Gregg Bereznick told QMI Agency’s Kris Sims: “We do work hand-in-hand with these families because we co-parent, so we hope that we could move forward.”

Co-parent? Neither Sansone nor anyone else ever went on one knee to his beloved then invited the school board into the marriage as co-parent. And the state clearly regards parents as subordinates, not partners. Note how Leviathan’s tentacles converge on hapless citizens like Sansone, from school boards to social services to police and beyond.

Canada’s Supreme Court just said parents can’t withdraw kids from Quebec’s religion and ethics class because such conduct “amounts to a rejection of the multicultural reality of Canadian society and ignores the Quebec government’s obligations with regard to public education.” Which trump parental desires.

Meanwhile, Alberta’s new Education Act won’t let home-schoolers and religious schools express “disrespect for differences”. A ministry spokesperson burbled: “You can affirm the family’s ideology in your family life, you just can’t do it as part of your educational study and instruction.” But doesn’t instruction include what you teach at the dinner table? Again, the state overrules parents in classrooms, and if they home-school it follows them home.

This is not co-parenting. It is taking over.