When I was homeschooling my kids on my compound innawoods, the Principal of the local elementary school came to my home and pointed out that the school district was losing $10k per year the federal government would pay them for each of my kids that attended. I asked him (facetiously) how much of that they would be willing to kick back to me if I put my kids in school. He laughed and said none, but leaned on me anyway, on my civic sense of community, etc., strongly implying I wasn't a team player and was harming the community. I pointed out I had great kids that deserved better than the abuse the school district could offer, and he and the school district could go to hell before I'd sentence my kids to a term in their charge. He took that rather well, and I got a couple visits from him over a couple years, since I hadn't shot him even once.

However, he eventually gave up and passed me on to the CPS. So they came to visit once, and that was a different kettle of fish, because they weren't trying to guilt me into sending my kids to school out of a sense of civic duty, they were trying to send me to jail for some trumped up charge so they could take my kids and put them in a care home. They brought cops with them. After that visit I made sure they wouldn't come calling unannounced again by putting a well shot target a few yards from my locked gate, and a sign on the gate that stated visitors needed to have a signed statement from the landowner granting egress and specifying the date and time of their entry, because it was a live fire zone, and if we weren't apprised of their date and time of entry they might be shot, because we wouldn't know they were there. I also did a lot of shooting just for my own edification, training dogs to retrieve birds, and teaching my kids.

Never saw them again.

These predators go for low hanging fruit. Be a hardened target.

Thanks!

Edit: In the title of the post Sen. Schaefer's name is misspelled Scaefer.