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by Renee McGuinness
Lawmakers, blind to their ideologies and policies that abuse both children and the sacred family institution, adopted a child advocacy resolution on Thursday. There was a ceremonial reading (@10:03) of House Concurrent Resolution 95 (HCR 95) on the House floor on Thursday, April 24. HCR 95 designates April 24, 2025, as Vermont Children’s Alliance Day (VCA). The resolution was automatically adopted in both chambers without a request for consideration on the floor by any representative or senator.
HCR 95 states that there are thirteen Child Advocacy Centers (CAC) in Vermont that provide “critical support and representational services to children whose needs can be acute and who rely on the centers to assist in transforming their lives from ones that may be harsh to a potentially more promising future.”
The resolution was offered by Representative Daniel Noyes of Wolcott, who serves as Clerk for the House Committee on Human Services. Among other roles, Noyes is Chair of the Vermont Commission on Children, Youth, and Families. Senator Virginia Lyons also serves on this Commission.
Wolcott stated on the Floor, “This month, the month of April, is nationally recognized as child abuse prevention month. It’s a time when we are reminded of the importance of protecting all children, supporting families, ensuring that prevention efforts reach every corner of our state.”
Directors of Child Advocacy Centers from across the state were present for the adoption of this resolution.
The Vermont Children’s Alliance is, according to its website, “a non-profit network of Children’s Advocacy Centers, all of which are committed to working together to improve the way Vermont supports and responds to victims of child abuse and child sexual abuse.”
No one can disagree with the intent of a Vermont General Assembly concurrent resolution that brings awareness, resources, and support to child victims of abuse. The irony is that the Vermont state government is now the greatest abuser of children and families and often creates the problems it intends to solve.
Merriam-Webster’sfirst definition of “abuse,” noun, is, “a corrupt practice or custom,” upon which I present an incomplete list of government abuses against children and families:
- Family and child abuse through corrupt practices: Neglecting to take up School Choice House Bill H.89 in the House Committee on Education and focusing school reform on the reduction of school districts and schools, thus restricting choice and disenfranchising children, parents, and communities of local control and access to schools that best serve their children’s needs.
- Psychological abuse: Reading books to kindergarteners that encourage them to choose their gender and pronouns, for which participation is required at Mary Hogan Elementary school.
- Passive psychological abuse: Rejection of Child Internet Protections Act (CIPA) filters in public libraries.
- Aggressive abuse against Christian families and schools: Instigate and fuel a culture war against Christian schools with a willingness to end Town Tuitioning for independent secular schools to prevent public funds from being distributed to Christian schools.
- Abuse of the sanctity of the family institution: Keeping two separate files on students in public schools: one for parents, one for the school, for the purposes of socially transitioning children at schools without parental knowledge or consent. (See page 4, “Privacy”)
- Psychological abuse: indoctrinating children, adolescents, and teens with LGBTQ+ ideology that has negative effects on mental health, then soliciting federal tax grant dollars to “solve” the mental health crisis.
- Mental and physical abuse: Shielding “gender-affirming care” practitioners from legal recourse while leaving patients at risk of harm.
- Mental and physical abuse: failure to reflect upon Covid policies that resulted in increased mental health issues: National Institute of Health (NIH) sources one, two, three and four; and contributed to a generation of preschoolers unable to properly enunciate words and read social cues upon entrance into kindergarten, NIH source 5, resulting in the need to hire more speech-language pathologists and mental health counselors for public schools, at taxpayer expense.
During the Parent’s Rights in Education event hosted by Gregory Thayer, Founder of Vermonters for Vermont Initiative, Marie Tiemann, President of SPEAK VT, succinctly stated (@30:45), “some parents have unwittingly delegated their responsibilities to the school system. The Essex-Westford school superintendent stated that schools, rather than primarily focusing on academics, should be a one-stop shop for children, which includes medical, dental, and psychological care. We want to ensure that parents always have the fundamental right to direct the upbringing and education of their children.”
See my three-part series exposing some of our legislators for imposing communist policies upon our state: Who has custody of our children: parents or the state?
As several individuals and organizations across Vermont continue to shed light on these issues, and parents are continually ignored, shut down, and bullied for speaking out, it should be clear that it is no longer effective for Vermonters to petition their legislators. The only way to end this long train of abuses and usurpations is for more voters to become aware of the fact that their state legislators’ policies harm, not help them; and to recruit and elect new leadership that respects the sacred family institution and supports legislation that fortifies parental rights.
The author, an Addison County resident, is Policy Analyst for the Vermont Family Alliance (not to be confused with Vermont Children’s Alliance).
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Children are not safe in Vermont Government Schools, and they want to allow unfettered access to children who may be abducted, and they don’t want ICE to find them. They want out of country students to get free Vermont education, like we aren’t paying enough already.
Keep ice out of schools, so illegals get free ride.
Keep police out of schools so drug deals can be done,
Keep science out of schools to propagate lies.
Keep Jesus out of schools so we don’t learn about, forgiveness, love and wisdom. Everything is acceptable, but for Jesus.
Keep porn and sex in schools so our kids confuse lust with love.
Keep cancel culture in schools so we get compliance and mind control.
Keep propaganda in schools so children are depressed, confused and prideful, thinking they know everything.
Keep drugging our children with all sorts psychotic drugs which have no scientific basis for use.
Keep crappy food for our most precious.
Our schools in Vermont are definitely not a safe environment, we could do better.
And yeah, our most pressing issue is ice? Just goes to show how far we have fallen.
https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2025/04/28/family-services-shows-up-to-take-a-nursing-baby-but-dad-isnt-having-it/
Aren’t there enough republicans in the house and senate now to stop this takeover of Vt education and steer it towards school choice?? How much worse does it have to get for something to be done so not to have to accept the status quo?? Do parents need to go to school board meetings and throw a fit, risk jail time for Montpelier to take notice for them to take the federal government’s vision of basic educational standards and implement them in this state because all these social programs like BLM hating their parents, gender and climate ideologies are doing just the opposite!!! Maybe you think giving sex toys to 10 year olds is fine but I do not. Reading pictures books on gender ideology to 4,5 and 6 year olds is unconscionable to me but it’s happening. I’ve written before but sixth, seventh and eighth graders have access to condoms, std treatments all without parental consent. It makes me think that Dems want to have children hate themselves, experiment before they are ready and then when they are in trouble and need help as in abortions, std treatments (all provided by -planned parenthood), the Dems think it’s the parents fault-when it’s them that has caused it all.
Vermont Dems have been trying to get hpv vaccine for 12 year olds without a parents consent passed, they don’t care about the terrible side effects-they just want to see if they can. Remember Lyons said—“because we can”. Isn’t it crazy that any representative would not put the child first when it comes to safety of a vaccine???
Does the next school shooter from somewhere in Vermont need to take innocent lives because they were bullied over an issue like the climate, gender, politics or racism and they took out their anger on innocent children. Remember like everything else your socialist government wants to control you, they want you to accept the horrible outcomes and just live with it. Don’t sit idle while kids whole futures and their lives are in danger. Be proactive and call and write your representatives. Demand school choice!!!
Thank you, Renee, for your excellent work, and for highlighting the rank hypocrisy of Vermont’s legislators in your article. Their cognitive dissonance is staggering.
Could we not also add to your list of how the legislature endorses child abuse through:
1.) Unrestricted, unregulated abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy which barbarically and violently poisons and tears children apart limb from limb in their mothers’ wombs before they’re born.
2.) Their rabid resistance to requiring parental consent before a minor child has an abortion.
3.) Their push to decriminalize/legalize prostitution which will inevitably cause child abused and sex trafficking to only increase.
Renee McGuiness is correct that only by electing more Republicans will the issues she enumerates be addressed. The same is true for education restructuring and energy policies. Republicans picked up 18 seats in the VT House of Representatives in 2024. Another 20 Republicans in 2026 would put the House in control of people who are committed to addressing these issues. In the Senate it would only require 3 more Republicans for majority control. Nothing will change unless the voters demand change by changing the makeup of the legislature.
If the school budgets keep passing – that is showing support, acceptance, and obedience to their beast system. The power of their bottomless purse is in our wallets – slam it shut and force them out – or keep being subjugated and allowing them to turn children’s brains into mush – obedient, compliant serfs, cattle in the turnstyle, sheep being led off a cliff. Wake up or stay asleep.