‘Co-Parent’: Canadian Educator’s Odd Response to Media Attention on the Gun Sketch Story
- Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:35pm by
Mike Opelka
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Why did a Canadian school think they had a right to freak out when a pre-schooler made a crayon drawing of a gun?
It’s quite simple. The teachers and the education system did so, because they consider themselves to be “co-parents” of the children.
The story about Jessie Sansone has been burning up TheBlaze all day. Jessie is the Canadian man who went through the humiliation of a police strip search as well as being arrested and having his home searched all because his 4-yr-old daughter drew a picture of Jessie using a gun to kill “monsters.”
The overwhelming public opinion on this story says that the school overstepped its authority. The school and school administrators disagrees. After all, the Superintendent of Education in the region believes that the educators are “co-parents” of these kids.
Seriously. Co-parents.
Watch the Superintendent, Gregg Bereznick explain it.
H/T Brian Lilley of Sun News Network in Canada
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Comments (153)
RightWingMom
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:51pmMy husband and I are 100% parents…we home school!
Report Post »OutOnTheTiles
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:57pmAmen. The State is not a “Parent”.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:58pmDid you know Socialist Sweden has banned homeschooling for Religious and Philosophical Reasons? Yep and If Obama get’s re-elected I fear he will move in this direction. Anybody But Obama 2012!
Report Post »Miami
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:12pmWTF
Is this idiot out of his mind?
What has happened to common sense?
These are not your children, if you want children of your own try finding a mate. Preferably a human one and not an anime of a human on line. But it‘s best if people like this don’t reproduce…
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:16pmSo a tutor that parents hire to teach their kids piano are also a co-parent?
Can I co-parent a teacher’s kid?
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:19pmThat comment is a small and rare window into the mind and mentality of a socialist/statist/liberal. Your kids belong to us. We are just as entitled to parent them as we see fit as you are. Wow very telling indeed. That must of just slipped out.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:21pmI’m sorry for my reaction but Socialist morons like this drive me nuts. Things like this happen in the old USSR & Cuba, even worse, the State would take children and raise them as they saw fit. Like athletes, dancers and alike. They would just take them away from their parents.
Is this what we can look forward to under a second Obama term…?
Report Post »Miami
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:24pmEven the reporter was taken back by his insane comment and that is saying a lot with the media today!
Report Post »Whirling Dervish
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:31pmWhen the guard dog sees himself as the homeowner, time has come to neuter.
Report Post »ChuckJ
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:45pmMy children are home schooled also. No failing school system to worry about and no violence in our school. My family‘s prayers go out to the victim’s of today’s shooting.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:47pmWhile you may home school your children, the rest of society has to understand that the statement about child care givers being co-parents is absolutely a reality. I don’t care how you feel on the subject. If you think that you can send your child to the care of another person for 6 hours or more a day where said person gives them more attention than you give your child in a week, they are having an impact upon how your child will develop and think. To say otherwise is ignorance.
I’m not justifying the teachers having this man strip searched and put in a jail cell while his home was ransacked, not in the least. In fact, had it been myself in that situation; I would have found a gun or made something equivalent and revisited the police station or school to show them how displeased I was with their complete disregard for my human rights. But the reality is that if you send your children to school, they will learn more than math.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:56pmSince they are co-parents they have the right to post-abort their child if they aren’t developing right.
Report Post »Cat
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:33pmMiami >
Correct. they haven’t a mind
These morons have no conscience mind, because they had anesthetized parents, and couldn’t possibly understand they’re dealing with cognizant parents’ undeniable love for their children.
Report Post »canknucklehead
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:47pm@Miami
That reporter is an unapologetic conservative. They are the Canadian Fox news. A pale shadow of them anyway.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:00pmThat’s great. Most of our founding fathers were home schooled too. And those that went to public school, well, let’s just say, the Government had no place to dictate anything therein.
Unfortunately, while Canada follows a “co-parent” initiative, the US follows a No-Parent policy. Go figure.
Go to the bottom of the page and listen to the “Home Schooling” topics:
Report Post »http://library.georgegordon.com/audio
oldguy49
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:14pmi do believe adolf hitler took kids and helped raise them also
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:16pm*If “Home Schooling” doesn’t show up, go to page 2 and then back to page one. It’s there.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:24pmco parents huh. nice. you will be paying for half their education, food, shelter, clothing, etc… thank you! alright! we are sending the bills.
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:32pmWhy don’t you come co-parent my A$$….
Report Post »By kissing IT!!!
Uranium Wedge
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:42pmDerogatory Comments. They’re fantastic!
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:33amSGTB! Thank you for the reality check. To a five-year-old in school all day,
Report Post »a teacher or other care giver = SURVIVAL!
grannyrecipe
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:45amI have a dream, that one day as we start to seriously deport illegal aliens from this Country that we, by force, make all peoples of this mindset work in the onion fields, the meat packing plants, the orange groves etc…and are prevented from doing anything more.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:47amit is time to start refusing to do anything the government says. most people are cowards and give in without putting up a stink. if everyone refused to follow a particular law or regulation just what do you think would happen? it is not possible to arrest or prosecute millions of people. we could show the bureaucrats that the people are in power not them.
Report Post »MissM
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 9:20amThis is why we homeschool too.
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 9:50amThis should work fairly well in our great urban settings as the dad is rarely home, or even known. Think that sounds harsh? Harsh is the dems keeping this anti-family situation in place for so many years. Yea, I know, “war on poverty” but just look at the results. And they are not an accident. The dems have successfully propagated generations of dependents with their policies and dependents to them are votes. Anyone else see this coming full circle???
Report Post »jnobfan
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 10:30amYIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Wow look how far we have come since 1969?
Can’t imagine what kind of country we will live in come 2025
Canada is a big place. Money to be made in the lightly populated energy fields. The cities will be absolutely unsafe by then IMO.
MamaZee
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:59pmReason #4,627 that we homeschool.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 11:30pm@ChuckJ
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:45pm
My children are home schooled also. No failing school system to worry about and no violence in our school. My family‘s prayers go out to the victim’s of today’s shooting
Report Post »***
Our local school had a young girl attacked by a mob in the restroom, severe head injury, while other girls stood guard. The school talked with the girls involved. My granddaughter had a teacher send her with something to the office, and she was threatened by a group of girls, my daughter now home schools her and younger siblings. It seems to be the ONLY way to protect your kids, I pray for the kids who have parents who can’t home school. The public school system needs dismantled and parents set up a new system with the money going to private or charter schools.
Dale
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:43pmAs a ‘co-parent’, will you pay half for my daughter’s braces?
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:54pmhe should said *co-child* They want an endless stream of money.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:26pmyes, this comment is going to get him a lot of “bills” sent to him by other co parents for back pay on clothes, shelter, food, medical expenses, birthdays, etc…
oops.. careful what you wish for. it MUST come from the teachers pockets too. since they WANT to be co-parents… you can’t make other tax payers pay for that… sorry. immoral?
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:40pmSo if a kid gets grounded by their parents, all he or she has to do is go to the “co-parent” and get the grounding repealed.
Report Post »Genius!
Daddy Hawg
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:33pmSO, as a “co-parent” the super should also be arrested, strip searched and his house searched. End of story since as a co-parent he also shares the responsibility of proving that there is no gun in his house as the “co-father.”
Report Post »Fear The Voices
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:44pmGood point! Maybe the parents should sue him for child support too!
Quite a few years back I spoke with a Canadian couple who were teachers. Even back in the early 90′s they feared for their increasingly more liberal education system. I guess they had good reason to be afraid.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:10pmInquiring minds want to know what kind of co-parent would have the other parent taken into custody strip searched and charged on such flimsy grounds? In recent months, the US courts have started to recognize this as abusive behavior on the part of the “parent” and giving sole custody to the other parent.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:29pmI am really sorry for the Canadian military who will now be asked to use paintball guns or speak in a demanding tone.
Report Post »AlbertaOIL
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:00pmLMAO,
Report Post »Have you seen what are poor military has for uniforms?
Paintball or Nerf…
JoeKing
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:46pmDon’t laugh. Did you ever see “Canadian Bacon”?
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:17pmIt’s this kind of thinking (co-parenthood) that is permeating throughout our education systems, as well here in the US. (Think of that north Carolina girl that had her lunch replaced with chicken nuggets.) In a sense we have brought this on ourselves with our complacency, first with federal governmental control over our lives and second the powerful education unions. Can we get control back in the schools? Maybe, if we get the federal government out of our lives by abolishing the Dept. of Educ. and turning it back to the local towns and cities, get rid of teacher unions and eliminate tenure. Yeah, I know, fat chance.
Report Post »Fear The Voices
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:47pmI had to laugh at the nuggets. Moochelle and barry rail against the evils of McDonald‘s and their flying monkeys of the cafeteria replace a child’s lunch with chicken nuggets.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:33pmMaybe the “Lunch Police” should head to the gym and indoctrinate them with the new video “Dancing with Mooshell” so their will be a class system for kids who bring their lunch to school and the kids who eat the FDA ‘s and Food Police’s breaded chicken fat nugget school lunch!
Wouldn’t that be a nice desert for the poor four year was singled out, chastized and forced to eat tbe FDA’s breaded chicken fat nuggets..then have to mimic Mooshell’s dance moves!
Sounds more like Soviet prison than an elementary school to me .. I do undestand they get baloney on white, an orange and water in prison!
Report Post »Hausmaus
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:17pmThis is what happens when fecal matter takes the form of Liberal Activism. I get the feeling that if Obama gets re-elected in November we are all going to be immediately flushed down the golden toilet. Are you ready for the Royal Crapper?
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:15pmAgain bottum feeding teachers trying to run your kids life.
Report Post »amerimom
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:13pmI‘d like to see how he’d react if someone tried to “co-parent” his kids!
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:18pmI don’t think God will let this buffone have children..he broke the mold after Gregie was born!
Report Post »cous1933
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:12pmIf we continue electing big government statists (yes, this includes Santorum, Romney, Gingrich, and Obama), this is coming soon to a school near you. In fact on The Heritage Foundation and Wall St. Journals freedom rankings, the USA is currently number 10, and Canada is number 6.
http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
Report Post »supressorgrid
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:09pmWhat do you want to bet that this guy has private “co parents” teaching his kids. If they want to share parenting with me, they owe me many,many years of child support.
Report Post »ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:06pmAll good Communists belong to the state. Your life must be regulated, supervised and correction given even for the perceived error or judgement. Your children do not belong to you. The state will educate them according to their test results to bring about the most perfect society for the elite. The less bright and the less physically coordinated will be relegated to the common jobs of mucking. For those that are mucking sterilization is required because the human condition must be advanced, regardless of the cost.
Report Post »The state has found evolution does not work so the state must step up and cleanse the human kind
species. Now there are several ways we can accomplish this. One chemical sterilization, water born. Two manual castration or hysterectomy, Three radio-logical sterilization.
Imagine the professional students that have finally achieved a degree are no going to tell the rest of us how we must live, breath, eat, speak to and who we are allowed to have sex with. Not in MY WORLD!
Itsjusttim
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:59pmOh you apathetic people don’t really, really care about them going to be telling you what to do. And they’ll do it ever so slowly, slowly, that you won’t even really notice, because you get lulled to sleep by Satan’s musical fire. That’s why the best solution is a couple asteroids crashing into earth at 35,000 miles per hour.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:08pmAnd then of course afterward not everyone will be reborn again, and the people‘s nasty souls who would rather be apathetic and enjoy Satan’s fire, their souls will sink like stones to the bottom of that one sea (that‘s why Jesus mentions it’s better to have a millstone tied around one’s neck and tossed in the deepest sea, because it can‘t be deeper than that one sea people’s souls will be tossed into) , and the oil that floats now they will walk the earth again. I’ll let you know how all the elbow room feels.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:26pmBut on the other hand “The Right Hand” there’s “The light.” So an asteroid doesn’t have to be the only solution. Because Heaven and earth are unto lightning striking in the East and reflecting in the West. Or that which Happens in Heaven reflects on earth. Lets examine that! Isaiah said “Don’t leave yourself no where to go.” Well that means the earth is full, and it is full because land is locked up so it can’t be used. Therefore the earth is covered with seas, because seas are the gathering of people. Therefore as in Genesis when God says “Let the dry ground appear” that will actually be millions upon millions of people dying off. Interesting!
Report Post »ESCAPED_FROM_USSR
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:17pm@Itsjusttim – be careful what you wish for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCi1I9Lr8Q4
Report Post »freedom4ever
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:57pmco-parents???? what are they talking about??? are they paying for the care of this child? no they aren’t! personally i would have a police order keeping them away from my children!
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:01pm“personally i would have a police order keeping them away from my children!”
Lol! I’m with you on that!
Report Post »bombshelterbob
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:09pmSo they’re co-parents now , eh? I’ll remember that when my kids needs braces, school clothes, and spending money on the weekends!
Report Post »JBaer
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:19pmGreat answer BSBob!! //thumbsup
Report Post »BJC
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:56pmI’d like to co-op my foot with this man’s butt. That’s the only thing I want co-oped with him!!!
Report Post »VAHomeschooler
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:53pmIt was this kind of attitude in our US public schools that caused my wife and I to turn to homeschooling. We have been a homeschool family for 4 years now. One of the most frequent comments we get is “You must homeschool, your kids are so well behaved”. I most recently heard this at a gun show this past weekend. Our children have the opportunity to learn the truth about the faith of our founders as they study the Constitution. Two things that public schools do not teach. They can also draw whatever they want without me having to drop my pants for the government.
Report Post »Micmac
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:52pmIt’s everywhere. How do we stop all of this? We are being hit from every angle. And the Repubs running for prez are no better.
NoBama 2012
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:52pmIf the teachers and the superintendent are co-parents, then why weren’t they arrested and strip searched, too?
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:58pmGood Point
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:59pmGot a good point there Buck.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:51pmOh hell no you aren’t!
Report Post »Marci
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:57pmSocialist craphole. We are next if we don’t stop the current administration and all his willing accomplices.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:05pmThose exact words flashed through my mind when I read the headline, so, ditto.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:05pmDid you know Socialist Sweden has banned homeschooling for Religious and Philosophical Reasons? Yep and If Obama get’s re-elected I fear he will move in this direction. Abo 2012!
Report Post »chameleonx
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:48pm“co-parents”? Do any of these people think before they speak? If I was in Jessie’s shoes I would take my child out of that school. No one has the right to do this to anyone. This is what political correctness does to people. We all have been young and know guns are used as weapons. I highly doubt a young girl drawing a picture of her father killing monsters makes him as a gun-nut.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:46pmthere it is, obama’s communist pals hard at work up in canada. any of those commies come anywhere our kids, and they will be feeding our hogs.
Report Post »Recceman90
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:44pmWow, my motherland is still moving towards the nanny state….even though they elected a majority Conservative Party (which has been doing very well, not to mention they are getting rid of the gun registry!)!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:52pmSouth Park maybe had it right, Blame Canada. Doesn’t Quebec want to become their own country, maybe it’s time to cut them loose.
Report Post »wowthird
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:43pmCo-parents? Can they help out with expenses then? I know my medical insurance rates are outrageous because I have a chronically ill child and am too “rich” to qualify for assistance.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:43pmLook, this is aboot, uh, the kid being traaamatizzed by a gun in da hooose. If ya have a gun in da hooose, we are going to feel ya up and all dat. Besides, her daddy was kind of good looking and I was feeling randy. So take off, eh.
Sincerly, da Superintendent of da school.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:10pmIdiot.
Report Post »On The Silent Wings Of Freedom
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:55pmPoodleDuck @ Feb 27 10:10 pm
Report Post »You must be describing yourself. Darmok and Jalad’s post was very funny and quite well done. Missing our sense of humor there, Poodle D*ck?
Reeferman
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:43pmJust keep in mind that most of the stupid things that are happening in Canada is either in the province of Ontario, Quebec or the West coast. The east dominated Canada for many many years with the unions screwing the rest of us. This is starting to change albeit very slow but is.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:43pmYep, the Hitlerjugend had co-parents too. At least the Canadians do believe in the co-parent system. Too many of our local boards of education have begun to believe that our children simply belong to them at all times. Can’t wait to see those board of education inspections of your homes. You know, for the safety and security of ‘their’ children.
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