Comments on: School Officials Reported Mom to Child Services Because A Psychic Told Them To!

By: Alannah

Alannah — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:32:01 +0000

@Ted

That was awesome! I laughed so loud that the neighbor's children felt they had been sexually victimized.

By: Leah

Leah — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:43:02 +0000

Basically this accusation came after the mother had run-ins with the school about their ability to educate her child and keep her safe at school.

Every year, thousands of US parents with disabled children are either threatened into submission or reported to Child Protective Services after run-ins with their child's school. I should know: it happened to us.

My son's school wanted him out -- they didn't want children who were deaf and cognitively challenged to be included in the deaf program. On the advice of deaf education experts from Gallaudet, we fought to keep him in the program. The school responded by reporting us to CPS, citing neglect. CPS quickly discovered the allegation as "unfounded."

I will never trust anyone in the public school system again.

By: Another Jake

Another Jake — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:35:17 +0000

Principal and Vice Principal should resign. Teacher should be fired. Mother should sue the school district.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:05:10 +0000

So, so tarded.

By: mkultra

mkultra — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:26:05 +0000

The Canadian media has been following this story, and reports that Children's Aid was quick to reject the case as ridiculous. However, they have to examine any report, and that is what they did.
I think the school owes the family one hell of an apology, if not a hefty cash settlement.
At the time of this writing they have issued no apology at all however.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:54:43 +0000

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!

Why are some people so dumb?!?!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:54:38 +0000

Imagine how bad it would have been had there been a male aged 23-26 living in their household? Hysteria over child abuse (however baseless the claims) is almost guaranteed to ruin any man's life.

By: Fran

Fran — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:03:28 +0000

Ted. Totally made me laugh out loud. Good on you. But those school officials. What idiots.

By: Larfin Jackarse

Larfin Jackarse — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:30:27 +0000

@evil pundit

And your point is?

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:01:25 +0000

"big bed made of dicks"

For one awful moment there I thought you said ducks. Dicks is OK, surely?

By: ted

ted — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:47:54 +0000

Valerie, Vanessa, Veronica, and Valentina, however, remained trapped in their abusive homes.

By: Lenore

Lenore — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:57:01 +0000

This is ridiculous! The psychic isn't to blame or anything, but come on... "Do you have a student who goes by 'V'?" And they accept that as evidence? This school's going to be paying up for sure.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:16:05 +0000

Its not just about the school doing something hyper-reactive. Its about the school doing something hyper-reactive because a psychic told them to. I think that adds something relevant to the story.

By: Neatoramawontsendmeapassword

Neatoramawontsendmeapassword — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:24:50 +0000

@ rainbow: Why not?

And for all you people whose minds slammed shut when you saw the word "psychic", read the damn article! It's not about a psychic getting something right; it's about a school doing something pretty questionable and putting a family through a lot of extra stress.

By: rainbow

rainbow — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:16:55 +0000

This shouldn´t get so much exposure.

By: Otis Beard

Otis Beard — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:44:00 +0000

I'm a psychic myself, and I'm getting very strong visions of little Victoria's principal, vice-principal, teacher, and educational assistant. I see them molesting children, sacrificing stolen pets to Satan, and sleeping naked together on a big bed made of dicks.

Someone notify the authorities, oh the humanity, won't someone think of the children?

By: Some Canadian Skeptic

Some Canadian Skeptic — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:11:01 +0000

Children's Aid Society is a normally hyper-reactive group. My family has had some run-ins with them before, all on the basis of some ill-informed teacher. In this case, however, CAS acted appropriatley, and they dismissed this as a baseless charge.

However, the School Board took it VERY seriously, which is horrible because it's a public entity. In effect, it says the government takes advice from psychics and will not hesitate to act on it.

I encourage everyone who is as angry as I am to visit my blog, where you can find all the relevant contact information, and write to the School Board and let them know that they can't get away with this, and they can't just sweep this under the rug.

Thanks!
Some Canadian Skeptic

By: Rebelist

Rebelist — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:52:18 +0000

My god, and these people have jobs working with kids??

By: jmp478

jmp478 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:39:34 +0000

This is a story right out of South Park XD

By: Greengirl

Greengirl — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:35:11 +0000

They are in Canada. Children's Aid moves incredibly fast in sexual abuse cases, there has been a flood of them in the courts of victims coming out with past abuses. If they thought the girl was living with the abuser, they would be there pretty fast. They are right, the case was ridiculous. I hope that this story is followed up.

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:44:02 +0000

You really are a jackarse, aren't you?

By: Larfin Jackarse

Larfin Jackarse — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:16:57 +0000

Well we invaded Iraq on flimsier evidence.

By: Lea

Lea — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:12:13 +0000

I'm surprised Children's Services moved that quickly. In most cases, they will not make a move at all until there is actual concrete evidence of abuse. Needless to say, the teaching assistant's words and the psychic's words would never stand up in court anyway.

By: joaquin

joaquin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:09:04 +0000

What is going on with that mom?

By: Some guy

Some guy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:53:19 +0000

One would hope they would make these determinations based on something more credible than the channeled rantings of Zontar the Indestructible. If these accusations have nothing else to go on the school administrators should lose their jobs.

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:44:15 +0000

Anthony, you obviously didn't get the story.

A psychic said these things. Baseless lies that a person who knows nothing about the child said.

You're about as retarded as the school officials Anthony

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:27:20 +0000

Score one for the good guys! I hope that sexually abusive mom burns in hell!