Nebraska Family Forum

It is the Mission of the Nebraska Family Forum (NFF) to promote education policies in our state that preserve and protect parental authority and the integrity of the family. In so doing, we will preserve the cooperative and respectful relationship between school authorities and parents, preserve a family-centered community, and provide a well-rounded education for our kids.

Monday, November 14, 2011

Contact State and Local Officials Who Are Asked to Support the GOALS team mission

We need people to write letters and share "truancy stories" with local and state officials who are being asked to put their support behind the GOALS Initiative created by a mandate in LB 463 in 2010. This next battle in this “war on parenting”.

The Memorandum of Understanding is the next significant step designed to prevent parents from reclaiming their rights lost in 2010 by a unanimous vote in the Unicameral and I cannot stress enough how important it is that every one of us do something to make our voice heard in these discussions.

The MOU has already been approved by every official on the list except the Douglas Board of Commissioners and the Elkhorn Police Department. When writing those who have signed the MOU, expressing your disappointment that they have affirmed the beliefs in the MOU, and when writing those who have not yet signed encourage them not to support the MOU.

Please write a letter and email and mail it to each person on this list. If you feel comfortable, then send it along to the forum for publishing here (). Feel free to go the extra mile, to step even further out of your comfort zone and make some phone calls to people on this list. Encourage your friends to something to help as well.

Clare Duda
Douglas County Commissioner
1819 Farnam St.
LC2, Civic Center
Omaha, NE 68183
(402)444-7025
email

Mary Ann Borgeson
Douglas County Commissioner
1819 Farnam St.
LC2, Civic Center
Omaha, NE 68183
(402)444-7025
email

Marc Kraft
Douglas County Commissioner
1819 Farnam St.
LC2, Civic Center
Omaha, NE 68183
(402) 444-7025
email

P.J. Morgan
Douglas County Commissioner
1819 Farnam St.
LC2, Civic Center
Omaha, NE 68183
(402) 444-7025
email

Chris Rodgers
Douglas County Commissioner
1819 Farnam St.
LC2, Civic Center
Omaha, NE 68183
(402) 444-7025
email

Pam Tusa
Douglas County Commissioner
1819 Farnam St.
LC2, Civic Center
Omaha, NE 68183
(402) 444-7025
email

Mike Boyle
Douglas County Commissioner
1819 Farnam St.
LC2, Civic Center
Omaha, NE 68183
(402) 444-7025
email

Ellen Brokofsky
Nebraska State Probation Administrator
Probation Administrator State Capitol
P. O. Box 98910
Lincoln, Nebraska 68509-8910
402-471-4140

Kerry Winterer
DHHS Chief Executive Officer
PO Box 95026
Lincoln, NE 68509-5026
402-471-9433

Don Kleine

1701 Farnam Street
Hall of Justice, Suite # 100
Omaha, NE 68183
(402) 444-7040

Nicole Goaley
Deputy County Attorney, Juvenile Division
1701 Farnam Street
Hall of Justice, Room 601.
Omaha, NE 68183

Alex Hayes
OPD Chief of Police
505 S 15th St
Omaha, Nebraska 68102
(402) 444-5600

Sheriff Timothy F Dunning
Douglas County Sheriff's Office
3601 N 156th St Omaha,
Nebraska 68116
(402)444-6641
http://www.sherifftimdunning.com/contact.html

Lee Polikov
Sarpy County Attorney
1210 Golden Gate Drive
Papillion, NE 68046-2889
402- 593-2230

Jeff Davis

Sarpy County Sheriff
8335 Platteview Road
Papillion NE 68046
402-593-2288

Chief Leonard Houloose
Papillion Police Department
1000 East First Street
Papillion, NE 68046-7611
Phone: 402.597.2035

Chief John W Stacey
Bellevue Police Department
2207 Washington Street
Bellevue, NE 68005
402-293-3100

Chief Robert Lausten
LaVista Police Department
7701 South 96th Street
La Vista, NE 68128
Phone: 402-331-1582

Chief Ron Murtaugh
Ralston Police Department
7400 Main St.
Ralston, NE 68127
402-444-5802

Chief Lester E Johnson
Bennington Police Department
11402 No. 156th St.
Bennington, NE 68007
(402)238-2067

Jim Nekuda
Sarpy County Commissioners
1210 Golden Gate Drive
Papillion, NE 68046-2894

Cell Number
(402) 216-1367

Jim Thompson
Sarpy County Commissioners
1210 Golden Gate Drive
Papillion, NE 68046-2894

Office Phone Number
(402) 593-4155
Home Phone Number
(402) 331-7226

Chairman Tom Richards
Sarpy County Commissioners
1210 Golden Gate Drive
Papillion, NE 68046-2894

Office Phone Number
(402) 593-4155

Jim Warren
Sarpy County Commissioners
1210 Golden Gate Drive
Papillion, NE 68046-2894

Office Phone Number
(402) 593-4155
Cell Phone Number
(402) 290-8000

Rusty Hike
Sarpy County Commissioners
1210 Golden Gate Drive
Papillion, NE 68046-2894

Office Phone Number
(402) 593-4155
Home Phone Number
(402) 291-2500

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The Personal Impact of Nebraska's School Attendance Law

We began collecting stories in April of 2011 and will continue to collect them as long as the law is abused. The stories we have collected demonstrate how our community has been impacted by Nebraska's school attendance law that counts all absences rather than "unexcused" absences for purposed of "truancy".

It may seem by the district by district breakdown that the law has impacted Millard Public Schools the most, but it is important to note that the Nebraska Family Forum grew out of the Millard Parent Society and therefore the awareness within Millard Public Schools is longstanding.

Out of the 3000+ cases referred to the Douglas County Attorney last year only 400 came from MPS. For every story collected here it is reasonable to assume that they represent dozens more who are affected who have not written their thoughts in a public way.

Nebraska Family Forum: What we Stand For

Mission:

NFF Guiding Principles:

Family is Key: We believe the family is the single most important element to a child’s ability to learn and be successful in school and life, and parents are the foundation upon which family success rests. For this reason, it’s imperative that the state honor the authority of parents as they exercise their natural rights, obligations, and responsibilities to raise, manage, direct, and educate their children.

Freedom in Education is essential: We believe that flexibility in education, school choice, stimulating curriculum, quality teachers, and innovative education reforms are essential to a family centered education. We support policies that will lead to greater parental influence in education innovation, curriculum, and choice.

Family struggles are a healthy part of life: We believe that the fundamental right of a parent does not cease to exist simply because a parent may fail to be a model parent. Parents often struggle to meet the needs of their children, but this is not in itself sufficient cause for unwanted and unwarranted government intrusion into family life. We join with Father Steven Boes of Boys Town in "proclaiming that not only are there no bad boys, as Father Flanagan taught, but there are no bad families.” There is always at least one person in a family that wants what is best for their children and is willing to ask for and receive the help they need.

Government Intrusion can be Harmful: We believe that the right of parents to raise their children without undue government interference is a fundamental liberty that has long been protected by the Constitution of the United States and is not void upon the enrollment of ones child in a public school. We warn that governments who seek to micro-manage the everyday choices of parents in pursuit prescribed outcomes, will do great harm to the integrity of the family and by extension, the well-being of children and society as a whole.

The Simple Truths

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~ Ernest Dimnet

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ~ Oscar Wilde

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~ William Butler Yeats

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ~ B. F. Skinner

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~ G. M. Trevelyan

Every educated person is a future enemy. ~ Martin Bormann

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ~ Michel de Montaigne

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ~ Mark Twain

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ~ John W. Gardner

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ~ Ezra Pound

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~ Robert M. Hutchins

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. ~ Albert Einstein

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~ A. A. Milne

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~ Albert Einstein

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. ~ Abraham Lincoln

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. ~aya Angelou

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids. ~ Dolly Parton

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

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