Nanny States of America – Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Play on Beach, Girl Given Detention for Hugging Friend

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I haven’t covered the American nanny state in a while, but two articles recently caught my eye and I simply have to share.

The first one relates to two parents charged with “reckless endangerment of a child,” for letting their two boys play on a Cape Cod beach for an hour unsupervised.

From Reason:

Parents who let their boys, ages 7 and 9, play on their own for an hour at a family beach will be arraigned later this month on charges of reckless endangerment of a child.

Charles Smith and Lindsay Pembleton of Niagara Falls were vacationing with their kids on Cape Cod. The boys wanted to stay at the beach for a little longer rather than walk back to the nearby campground (which is, according to one commenter, accessible via a car-free path). The parents said okay, but told them they couldn’t go in the water, according to The Cape Cod Times.

By the time a lifeguard spot the children, they were—gasp—wet from the rain. What’s more, they were “standing around a food truck with no adults in charge.” 

Thankfully, the police were called before any of that wetness and unsupervised food trucking could escalate into something worse.

Even though over 90 percent of sex crimes against kids are committed by people they know, not random beach inhabitants, the cop decided to file reports of suspected abuse or neglect in both Massachusetts and New York. And, for good measure, she also “applied for criminal complaints against them in Orleans District Court.”

Moving along, we find ourselves in Florida, a state which always provides a disproportionate amount of “this can’t be real” type stories.

From the Independent:

Before this week, 14-year-old Ella Fishbough had never been in trouble at school.

The cheerful, curly-haired eighth-grader’s undoing came when she learned that a male friend was having a bad day. As consolation, Ella put her arms around him in a hug.

“It was literally for a second,” the eighth-grader told Click Orlando. But that moment earned her a morning in detention — as well as a blemish on her formerly spotless disciplinary record.

Ella attends Jackson Heights Middle School in Oviedo, Florida, part of the Seminole County School District. The district’s code of conduct prohibits “inappropriate or obscene acts” including “unwelcome or inappropriate touching, or any other physical act that is considered to be offensive, socially unacceptable or not suitable for an educational setting.”

It is at each principal’s discretion to determine what kind of touching is inappropriate. According to WFTV Orlando, hugging was banned altogether at Jackson Heights this year, in addition to holding hands, linking arms and kissing.

Think that’s insane? It gets worse:

In a conversation with Fishbough, Jackson Heights principal Sarah Mansur-Blythe said the PDA rule will continue to be strictly enforced — even in the case of family members.

“I did ask the principal, ‘If something had happened in our family, and she needed to console her cousin, or her cousin wanted to console her, would Ella get in trouble?” Fishbough told Click Orlando. “She said, ‘Yes, ma’am. She would get a PDA.’”

This is conditioning plain and simple. To ensure students grow up to be thoughtless, submissive, terrified slaves as adults.

Similar incidents at schools across the country have drawn attention to the seeming rigidity of policies on public displays of affection. Almost exactly four years ago, two other Florida middle-school students, this time in Palm Bay, were given in-school suspensions for sharing a hug even though their principal said he believed their behavior was innocent.

Megan Coulter, an Illinois eighth-grader, gained a considerable following after the Associated Press reported in 2007 that she was labeled a “second offender” by her middle school for gently hugging two different people. Coulter was punished with two days in detention.

Many of these policies have been in place for at least the last decade, and some were approved by parent-teacher committees. But parents like the Fishboughs believe that the rules have been taken too far, to the point that Ella is now afraid to even touch anybody, Click Orlando reports.

She is scheduled to serve her detention this Friday morning.

Meanwhile, still no bankers in jail.

For related articles, see:

Washington State School District Bans Game of “Tag” to “Ensure Physical, Emotional Safety of Students”

The “Nanny States of America” – Mother Arrested for Allowing 7-Year-Old Son Walk to Park Alone

11-Year-Old Boy Taken Away by CPS for Being Left in Backyard Alone for 90 Minutes; Parents Charged with Neglect

Maryland Parents Being Investigated for Neglect After Letting Their Kids Walk Home from Playground Alone

A Winter Wonderland of Fear – Cities Across the U.S. Move to Ban Unregulated Sledding

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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26 thoughts on “Nanny States of America – Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Play on Beach, Girl Given Detention for Hugging Friend”

  1. The same country that has such perverse and overblown “concern” for its own children seems to find nothing wrong when we bomb, incinerate and starve thousands of other children who happen to be collateral damage from the depraved foreign policies our criminal syndicate government follows.

    We are truly, truly lead by psychopaths from top to bottom. Those who claim to lead us and those who administer our institutions are mindless, soulless automatons who do anything they are told to do…and expect others to follow their same life-denying insanity.

    If they had been in Germany in the 30s you can be quite sure they would have joined the throngs at the side of the road, faces turned upward in rapt adoration as der Fuehrer drove by in his staff car. Just more BS…Brownshirt Syndrome.

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  2. The best way to defeat this fascistic behaviour would be for the children of the whole school to stage a crowd hugging. Let the principal give detention to the whole school.

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    • I totally agree with that strategy and the parents should ban together and agree to do this, this rule would end in hours if not days .. Two reasons 1 its a stupid rule but one with a purpose, “Conditioning” turn our children into mindless minion’s, uncompassionate, thoughtless, fearful, robotic “Slaves” …

  3. …..in the nanny state there is no need for men, The beast is the daddy. And it and its minions are coming for the kids. Although only 1.9% of the population are gender confused , we have been forced to normalize that behavior as a society. 1.9% of us. The kids are next. The overlords are moving quickly towards that goal.

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    • Nice Freudian projection you’ve got going there. You come across as someone insecure about their own masculinity and role in society.

      These sorts of absurd social policies come about because of the narrow mindedness which demands unwavering conformity to some group-think “norm”. Zero tolerance.

  4. This is totally BS. Thank you Jesus, that I grew up when children were allowed to be children and not pawns of the state. In those days we played and were allowed to be happy. I was (gasp) allowed to walk 6 blocks to school (OMG) alone. At 14 I had an after school job and walked 2 miles to work( alone).

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  5. I want a couple of black kids to hug and console each other…Guaranteed race would be brought up and the parents or parent would be B/S…Probably the Teacher wouldn’t notice two black children and look the other way….This society is about hate right now folks…Individuals trying for there two minutes of political correctness …Teacher’s should not touch any student under any circumstance…No coach slap on the butt or pat on the back…Don’t assist if a student should be in distress or perhaps chocking…One other thing…How does the principal have last word on what’s appropriate…Suppose it involved the Mayor’s child, maybe a teacher, or the principals next door neighbor…What a crock of shit…

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  6. Im positive people reading will assume this is an isolated incident. I doubt it. Because we now have police shooting and killing americans with their hands up guilty of no wrong doing.
    We have always had corrupt politicians, now more than ever. But now cities and counties are showing abrassive tactics and this can only be due to the fact they’re being told to.
    But none of this is our biggest problem.
    Our biggest problem is that most Americans are completely oblivious. Have no clue whatsover what’s really happening in this country.

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    • Wayne, you got that right.
      Anyone who thinks Cape Cod is a nice place to vacation with kids is disconnected with the reality.A bastion of fascism there. Florida? A massive control state. When Americans stop participating in supporting this stuff, it might start to change. When parents stop subscribing to netflix, getting their kids phones, eating fast food & sugar, etc, maybe they’ll get some clout again.

  7. We need to tell our children to have “hug ins” at their schools. And we need to stand up to these oppresive measures with solidarity and force of neccesary.I am all for civil disobedience and lethal force of neccesary against the authorities who make these laws and those who enforce them.

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  8. i know a lot of americans think the people of new york city are crazy godless people but i have to say that nothing like this ever happens in my neighborhood. the kids are allowed to walk to and from school unescorted from fourth grade. hugging, etc is common. there is a zero tolerance for bullying but i can’t think of a single instance in our local school where the police were brought in to deal with a behavioral problem.

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  9. After 34 years in parochial and public school classrooms, the last 15 being in Florida, I’m glad I retired 12 years ago because the best things that happened to me in school were THE HUGS I RECEIVED FROM MY MUNCHKINS. Unless we wake up very soon, this zero tolerance garbage that has invaded our society, especially in our schools, is just another nail in our coffin. God help us!!

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  10. Such ridiculous over-concern is one facet of modern liberal-influenced America — especially interesting when compared to that other facet, the murder of over 50 million babies through abortion.

    If our society is really so concerned for the safety of an 8 or 11 or 12 year-old, how can it be so willing to destroy the unborn who would, someday, be those 8 or 11 or 12 year-olds?

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  11. HERES the good news,OUR FATHER in HEAVEN,has decided to TAKE ALL the children,and then HAMMER THE USA INTO THE DIRT…..you wanted the worst scumbag whores in america to destroy your children,NOW YOU’LL LOSE THEM for it……..

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  12. I think it is a little too late for anything to be done about this. It should have been fought against a few years back. It is really too bad we are in a police state now. I will be damned if they will tell me what to do.

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  13. PDA has to be enforced or decent children will be harassed by the indecent ones having to watch them practice thier deviant choices of sexuality. Not like they are not exposed to it everywhere but it is nice knowing there is a place perversions cannot be carried out.

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  14. UNTIL the people simply pick a week to STAND UP and ASK “who empowered YOU “, “by WHAT RIGHT UNDER THE LAW ARE YOU EMPOWERED TO THIS DEGREE to invade and INTERFERE in our lives ”
    this crap will continue.

    CPS ? who empowered them to swoop in and in some circumstances REMOVE AND PLACE YOUR CHILDREN WITH NO SUBSTANTIATED EVIDENCE BEYOND IN MOST CASES BS ?
    this is illegal and violates the Constitution.

    as for this crap that the girl touched someone in WHAT THEY FEEEEEEEEL was inappropriate–the families should simply tell the school to f off.
    and yes I SAID IT–f off.

    ya see UNTIL THE PEOPLE GET IT TOGETHER AND START THE LAWSUITS- YES,LAWSUITS ON THe\E VIOLATIONS OF RIGHTS–this crap continues BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WILL STOP THEM.

    and for the helluvit,read your enumerated rights and PAY ATTENTION TO THE 9th A.

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  15. This is insanity. Gov. needs to stay out of our daily lives.People you better start yelling back and tell them where to go.!!!

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  16. I guess, what the article does not discuss, is the reason for these trends, which, I suspect, is in big part ever increasing demands for “protection” of the children coming from the very same parents who then complain on overreaction. It’s very possible that the true reason little Johny is arrested today for making a gun from bread, is Johny’s mom yesterday’s demand to execute zero tolerance. So zero tolerance does he get.

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