Governor Phil Scott of Vermont is now directing schools to interrogate students about what they did on Thanksgiving. He wants to know if they had a large family gathering.
Did you ever imagine that things like this would be taking place in the United States?
And Phil Scott is a Republican. What is he thinking?
The Federalist reports:
Vermont Governor Instructs Schools To Interrogate Students About Family Thanksgiving Gatherings
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott is giving schools the green light to interrogate students about their Thanksgiving activities following the break.
According to Scott, students or parents who admit to violating the state’s holiday travel and gathering rules will be forced to participate in online school for two weeks, he announced via Twitter on Tuesday. The penalty will be reduced to one week if the students in question take a COVID-19 test.
The same quarantine method, Scott claimed, should apply to businesses whose employees decide to celebrate the Thanksgiving holidays with friends and family.
“This isn’t a way around the ban or an excuse to get together,” he wrote. “The more we adhere to this policy, the faster we’ll lower case counts & ease up on restrictions.”
See the governor’s tweets below:
Enough of these dominoes put our health care facilities at risk. Protecting our family and friends is in our hands and we all have a role to play. So I’m asking you to help by avoiding getting together with people outside your households and not travel this week. 8/
— Governor Phil Scott (@GovPhilScott) November 24, 2020
Unfortunately, we know some will still get together and schools have asked for help. @VTEducation will direct schools to ask students or parents if they were part of multi-family gatherings and if the answer is yes, they’ll need to go remote for 14 days or 7 days and a test. 9/
— Governor Phil Scott (@GovPhilScott) November 24, 2020
This is tyranny.
The government should not be asking children to snitch on their own families.
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Cross posted from American Lookout.
ALL parents need to ‘drill’ their children on ‘not’ speaking about any of this with school personnel. If a school staff member or ‘anyone’ else asks, the student should tell them they want and need to call their parents. This goes beyond anything that is legal. If it’s ‘security personnel’ asking, the kid should say I want my parents and a lawyer. From there, the parents, after they hear about this, need to speak to an attorney. A group of parents would be better…and go for the school district’s pocketbook. Make it very public, too…and float as many names out there as possible.
This is a tactic Stalin, Hitler, Mao and other socialist/communist dictators have used, in the past with often brutal results.
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything”.—Albert Einstein
THIS! Every last word you said- On point.
This isn’t right. I hope *every* parent is aware of this and speaks to their child(ren) about immediately asking for them upon any sort of questioning whatsoever.
Going for their pockets is a good way of deterring it from happening elsewhere and getting this nonsense to STOP.
This is the shit they did in Cuba when Castro took power. They would ask school kids about things their parents and did, as well as brainwash them to worship Castro. A kid would be blindfolded and told to ask God to give them an ice cream cone. When they took off the blindfold, there was no ice cream in sight. Then they’d put back the blindfold and tell the kid to ask Fidel for the same ice cream cone. Once they did that, the ice cream cone would magically appear! My dad worked for Goodyear, which the communists nationalized and turned to excrement in short order. My dad refused to be a communist stooge, so they turned on him. There were coworkers who’d question his every motive and one would come over for dinner often. Even his kids tried to press me (age 5) for info, like my family’s travel plans, when they suspected we were planning to leave the country for America. Parents, I can only offer the X-Files motto, with respect to your kids’ schooling: The truth is out there, trust no one!