This is typical of the collectivist "stakeholder" mentality in which every political "interest" is deemed a "partner" making decisions intruding in your life. This mentality is all over government and politics now, from controlling what you can do with your own private property (and demanding that you don't) to demanding that "corporations" be "accountable" to whatever some political pressure group demands. It is intended to destroy individualism, including private property rights and raising your own children.

You are required to stop reading in the Gulch after you read the following~
You little next to nothings do not have a right to question the intelligence or the authority of our more than equal elite governing betters.
It's all constitutional because we who are your betters say it is.
Say, is that your family? Nice family.
Would you like to keep it?
We are from the government and we are here to help you.
We the people. You ain't.

The goal of an authoritarian state is an obedient population of subjects, and the best way to insure that is to control the social and moral training as early in life as possible. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and what we're witnessing is the result of social engineering aimed at eliminating want and travail for all.

Societal conflict has a variety of trigger elements: ethnic, religious, class, political. By focusing on "the unfortunate," well meaning social engineers instill a sense of victimhood in segments of society, resulting in anger and feelings of entitlement. By placing itself in the position of equality with parents, and with obviously the power to do things for the "victim" that the parents can't do, the government destroys parental authority. The end result is a subject populace, obedient to the state.

Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, Indeed!
Anyone claiming to partner with me in the raising of my children that I didn't invite doing so, will feel the full wrath of Herb -- such as it is. John, you really hit a nerve with this one. It makes me so angry that I had to get up, go to the bedroom and punch the hell out of a foam pillow. (Foam pillows don't tend to lose their shape unless set on fire).

I'm sure we all realize that this is just one aspect of the government's desire to control every part of our lives.

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.

I haven't read the whole thing;(not enough time; I
am actually supposed to be looking for a job, and
seeing this remark a considerable number of days
after it was posted). But it is--"outrageous" doesn't
quite cover it. It goes beyond arrogance--perhaps it would better be described as a cross
between hubris and chutzpah.

Look guys...this all is a play from the chapter in AS, "White Blackmail". How do they control you? They threaten what is most precious to you. If society doesn't stand up and say, "Oh hell no!" they know they've already got us.

There are all kinds of databases and registries being set up here in California regarding our kids. It's gotten to the point of being a common topic of discussion at any parents mixer, no matter the political stance of the parent. Most are sharing that "deer in the headlights" amazement at what we're seeing and what we are expecting to hand over. The latest one is a registry of each student, managed by a private entity, with information including the child's SSN. LOL...yeah...

This is why my next piece of property will likely be outside the US. We all have out line in the sand. This is mine.

Stay the fuck away from my kids...

This is how Stalin, Hitler and Mou got over on their populations.

Progressivism: thinking they know better than you and insuring that you become so dumb that they will seem as gods...

This mindless set has pervaded civilizations since the fall of Babylon.

Same creatures...same plan.

With friends, I have tracked this Mao type control of children since our now age 31 daughter was in 3rd grade, and Outcome Based Education was being denounced by Britain as a "brain drain". However, the Clinton's embraced it both in Ark. and federally. Hillary began harping for the "village" to raise the child. An that is when parent's were shoved out, children given ideas of no right and wrong and no self-responsibility. Academics grew less and less part of the school day. Columbine was an early district to embrace it all, yet to this day, the role of the school brainwashing is never visited. Then, in came Bush and Obama, and Common Core, train those little one world socialist, forget they are dreadfully at the bottom academically. Suddenly, with schools under scrutiny over test results, the parents were urged to take more of a role, but only with that, don't try to impart their values. I have black friends complaining about the effect the schools have had on their kids' reasoning. I talked with an Hispanic I met at a restaurant this week. He said he would never vote for Hillary, he said he has to sit his kids down and ask where their disrespectful attitude is coming from, and then set them back on path of respect for parents and grandparents. Even a close freind of Clinton, back in his Ark. days, initially thrilled her son was taken in to the Governor's School, later wrote how dangerous it was when the kids were alienated from parents, and her own son committed suicide. The government wants little sheep, not too smart, and definitely not loyal to family. They do not want them able to reason, just learn enough to keep the levies passing.

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.