Posted on 07/31/2013 7:48:51 PM PDT by RWB Patriot
The U.S. Department of Justice has revealed in a court filing it agrees with the philosophy of the German government that bureaucrats can punish homeschooling parents.
The agency contended parental rights to keep children free from instruction that violates faith essentially are negligible when the government’s goal is an “open society.”
The arguments were made in a pleading before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that urges the judges to send a German homeschooling family, the Romeikes, back to Germany where members likely would face persecution.
“The goal in Germany is for an ‘open, pluralistic society,’” wrote the government’s pleading, signed by Senior Litigation Counsel Robert N. Markle in Washington.
German law, he argued, requires attendance at government schools, and punishment is levied against anyone failing to comply, even due to religious objections.
His argument to the appellate court cited a German court decision, which stated: “The general public has a justified interest in counteracting the development of religiously or philosophically motivated ‘parallel societies’ and in integrating minorities in this area. Integration does not only require that the majority of the population does not exclude religious or ideological minorities, but, in fact, that these minorities do not segregate themselves and that they do not close themselves off to a dialogue with dissenters and people of other beliefs. Dialogue with such minorities is an enrichment for an open pluralistic society. The learning and practicing of this in the sense of experienced tolerance is an important lesson right from the elementary school stage. The presence of a broad spectrum of convictions in a classroom can sustainably develop the ability of all pupils in being tolerant and exercising the dialogue that is a basic requirement of democratic decision-making process.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/doj-governments-can-punish-homeschoolers/#SbOS77Sgpp3AcIJK.99
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The feral government has declared its independence from us, the people. I believe we’ve nearly arrived at the point at which we’ll just have to let it go its own way.
And yet our government wants amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. But not for this one homeschool family from Germany. Wow.
Up yours, E. Holder and Curious George.
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Has Holder ever met a government power he didn’t like and support?
So much for Liberty.
Germany is a nice country. Good food, nice people, beautiful architecture.
They are socialist. They are ageist, they refuse to go to church and make fun of those who do and they do not marry.
They are not a tolerant and open society, so DOJerks can go over and visit and find out what the hell it is they think they’re talking about.
My religion states as doctrine that it is the parents’ responsibility to educate their children.
That’s logic.
“The goal in Germany is for an ‘open, pluralistic society’”.
This was clearly Adolf Hitler’s intent when he forbade home schooling. The man was all about pluralism, as long as it was Aryan pluralism.
Definitely a hack job.
All your children are belong to us.
Obama and Holder could begin their planned extermination
camps, and the MSM will EAGERLY call them ‘hospitals’.
That part is simply not true. Parents can send their children to any number of non-public private schools, parochial schools, Montessori schools, Waldorf schools, and the like. What is correct, though, is that schools must be government accredited to meet some basic educational standards.
Doesn't this violate the very mission statement for America?
I believe I read somewhere in that decision that American parents had the right to direct their children’s education even though the court turned down the German parents’ request for asylum.
Where does this jerk Holder and his clown DOJ get the right to “rule” differently?
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