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Organization of Concerned Parents Denounces Concerned Parents
Organizations
Concerned
that organizations of concerned parents are giving concerned parent organizations
such as hers a bad image, the president of the Organization of Concerned
Parents (OCP) said that her group would resign from the umbrella Organization
of Concerned Parent Organizations (OCPO), of which it has been a member
for fifteen years, and organize a new pressure group to combat out-of-control
pressure groups.
"We believe that there are millions of parents out there who
are concerned about what their children are watching, eating, playing
and reading," said OCP president Jane Laffless in a Washington,
D.C., press conference on Monday. "Our concern is that the
organizations that bring these concerned parents together are themselves
insufficiently concerned about the organized damage their organizations
can do to parents when they suggest that organizations of concerned
parents can replace the parents themselves where parenting is concerned.
"We need to concern ourselves with organized ways of alleviating
parental concerns without intruding into parental areas that do
not properly concern organizations such as ours.
"Concern, concern, concern," Laffless added in a thin,
reedy voice while wearing a plaintive expression.
To that end, the OCP will reorganize itself as the Parents Concerned
About Concerned Parents Organizations (PCACPO) and will invite other
groups, including the Parents United in Concern (PUC), Concerned
Parents Organized to Promote Concern (CPOPC), the Organization of
Parents Expressing Concern (OPEC) and the Association of Parents
with More Concern Than Sense (APMCTS) to join it in a new crusade
against concerned parents organizations.
Reporters were too preoccupied with figuring out their own notes to ask
questions of Laffless.
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