Comments on: Legislative Alert! January 16, 2009 http://ohiohsalert.org/archives/32 Stay informed about potential Ohio State Board of Education regulation changes. Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:48:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Annonymous http://ohiohsalert.org/archives/32/comment-page-1#comment-602 Annonymous Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:08:04 +0000 http://ohiohsalert.org/?p=32#comment-602 On the surface this may APPEAR to be insignificant, BU-UT... Once certification is earned it is permanent and lifelong. This puts the burden of proof for any "alleged" infraction on the State. Thus maintaining "Innocent until PROVEN guilty". However, when someone is "licensed"... What the State giveth, the State can taketh away! At will, and quite easily, if desired. What happens when all of the certified teachers are retired, or gone, and just licensed teachers are left, who must also follow rules mandated, by the State, that may just happen to go against the beliefs of the parents? Will they then invoke the *doctrine of parens patriae? Will this be realized when it's too late to do anything about it? This is yet another slow, methodical, yet indirect confiscation of our "unalienable rights". *Doctrine of Parens Patriae - loosely, Child of the State - Black's Law 8th ed. pg 1144 On the surface this may APPEAR to be insignificant, BU-UT… Once certification is earned it is permanent and lifelong. This puts the burden of proof for any “alleged” infraction on the State. Thus maintaining “Innocent until PROVEN guilty”. However, when someone is “licensed”… What the State giveth, the State can taketh away! At will, and quite easily, if desired. What happens when all of the certified teachers are retired, or gone, and just licensed teachers are left, who must also follow rules mandated, by the State, that may just happen to go against the beliefs of the parents? Will they then invoke the *doctrine of parens patriae? Will this be realized when it’s too late to do anything about it? This is yet another slow, methodical, yet indirect confiscation of our “unalienable rights”.

*Doctrine of Parens Patriae – loosely, Child of the State – Black’s Law 8th ed. pg 1144

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