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"Compulsory schooling is one of the greatest social achievements of our time," Josef Kraus, head of the German Teachers' Association, tells TIME. "This law protects children."

"No parental couple can offer a breadth of education and replace experienced teachers."

1 posted on 02/03/2010 8:42:43 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: metmom; JenB; wintertime; MrB

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2 posted on 02/03/2010 8:43:23 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner
"Compulsory schooling is one of the greatest socialist achievements of our time," Josef Kraus, head of the German Teachers' Association, tells TIME. "This law protects children."

There, I fixed it.

3 posted on 02/03/2010 8:47:52 AM PST by Nat Turner (Escaped from NY in 1983 and not ever going back....)
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To: stainlessbanner

We used to offer asylum to the lucky few who could escape the Marxist regime.

Now possibly we can help the few remaining Christians in Germany who refuse to bow down to the snakes of secularism.


4 posted on 02/03/2010 8:51:44 AM PST by eleni121 (For Jesus did not give us a timid spirit , but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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The head of NEA believes exactly the same thing. Except she/he would add “ in the public schools.” Not content with a monopoly, that organization would prohibit private education. And it is to this group our President panders, even as he enrolls his own girls in a toney private school.


5 posted on 02/03/2010 9:01:56 AM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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Most of the REALLY bad ideas in the late 19th early 20th Century originated in Germany... Marx/Engels...Social Security...Public Schools...Socialized Medicine... the list goes on and on...


6 posted on 02/03/2010 9:12:21 AM PST by US Navy Vet
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The Homeschool Legal Defense Fund is currently working on helping another homeschooling family in Sweden. Swedish social workers hopped a plane to Indonesia (the mother's native country), took their only child (7-yr old son)and have limited the parents to 1 hour of supervised visits every 5 weeks.

We pulled our kids out of public school two years ago and it was the bravest thing I have ever done. My husband is a teacher and coach at that small, rural school. We ran into opposition—NOT from anyone in the school, but from very conservative, anti-socialist, and pro-free market parents. Go figure.

One of them passionately warns about the dangers of letting the government get control of your life via Obamacare, but thinks it's morally wrong not to let the government have complete charge over everyone’s children. Seriously.

What even many conservatives forget is that when the federal government began to take over education there was the same level of outcry from the people as we have now with the healthcare issue. Now, one is seen as weird, fringe,and abusive if he/she dares to say the government has no business educating my child...even by even by conservatives.

9 posted on 02/03/2010 9:43:50 AM PST by Spudx7
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He also argues that homeschooling deprives children of important social lessons.

Yep. The lessons of being bullied, attacked in the bathroom, forced to learn perverted sex ed, all the while learning a world view diametrically opposed to your parents.

10 posted on 02/03/2010 9:44:32 AM PST by Slyfox
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This is ridiculous. The compulsory school attendance law was enacted by NAZI Germany. The US, Great Britain, and France - the powers occupying West Germany after WWII - should have required the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany void all laws enacted while the NAZI’s were in power.


11 posted on 02/03/2010 9:44:59 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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“No parental couple can offer a breadth of education and replace experienced teachers.”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This man it completely and utterly uninformed!

He should meet two of my homeschooled kids. They had earned B.S. degrees in math by the age of 18. The older of the two was **teaching** ( at the age of 18) college math to college students as part of her master's program. She earned a masters in math by 20.

And...My homeschoolers are not at all unusual for homeschoolers. Many, many, many more children could be doing the same but they are trapped in prison-like schools and forbidden to progress.

These high achieving homeschoolers are NORMAL!!1 It is the institutionalized child who is artificially delayed socially and educationally.

12 posted on 02/03/2010 10:00:01 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid!)
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It’s a bit stressfull for us homeschoolers to consider just how many liberals want homeschooling to be illegal here in the U.S.


19 posted on 02/03/2010 12:18:34 PM PST by DungeonMaster (A Christian Democrat is better than a heathen Republican)
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