Homeschooling? Be glad you live here and not in Germany.

[Jerchap2]

This is an update, as of yesterday, on a case that you may have heard about. These folks fled Germany to come to the US because they wanted to teach their children at home. A judge several years ago granted asylum in the U.S. to the family.

The Obama administration, unhappy with the outcome, appealed and obtained an order from a higher court that the family must return to Germany. The Obama administration has argued in court parents essentially have no right to determine how and what their children are taught, leaving the authority with the government.

The parents, back in Germany, still maintain they should have the right to teach their children. So now the German government has forcibly seized their children (ages 7-14) and said that the parents will not see them "any time soon."

That poor family. Way to go, BHO. His tyranny knows no bounds.

Police storm homeschool class, take children by force

 

[HeadlessRoland]

Heard about this via the New American. Sad update. Enragingly sad outcome.

 

[HoughMade]

Trust me. I am glad I don't live in Germany.

​How dare a parent want to determine how their child is educated. Only the government approved teachers and schools could possibly do this in a way the state approves.

 

[IndyDave1776]

It would behoove us to remember that our system of public education was largely the product of John Dewey who fell in love with the Prussian system of education which basically was engineered to produce useful idiots as the government felt were needed at any given time. This runs in direct conflict with the notion of charting one's own or one's children's destinies.

 

[HoughMade]

As Ed McMahon would say: "You are correct, sir!"

 

[Jerchap2]

It would behoove us to remember that our system of public education was largely the product of John Dewey who fell in love with the Prussian system of education which basically was engineered to produce useful idiots as the government felt were needed at any given time. This runs in direct conflict with the notion of charting one's own or one's children's destinies.

Well-said.

Prussia, now Germany, has a long history of persecuting homeschooling families.

It was in 1937 when Adolf Hitler said: “The youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled. This Reich stands, and it is building itself up for the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.”

Germany may be free of Hitler, but certain cultural remnants remain.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

Raise the mighty mother mistress,
Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress, (bend your heads all,)
Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'd mistress,
Pioneers! O pioneers!