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Believe it or not, there are some foreigners the Biden administration wants to deport. The government has served notice to a foreign family that they need to leave the United States by October 11. In less than a week, they need to be out of this country. They have applied for asylum, but the government rejected their claim. The Romeike family has resided here for 15 years and has both citizen and non-citizen members, but it doesn’t matter. The non-citizens of the family – the majority – have to get out. It’s quite a contrast with what’s going on at...

The Romeike family was forced to flee Germany in 2008, because they chose to homeschool. Germany does not recognize the fundamental right of parents to homeschool their children, and only permits the practice in very narrow circumstances. A Story of Hope When Uwe and Hannelore Romeike decided in 2006 that God was calling them to homeschool their five children, Germany responded swiftly by leveling fines that exceeded the family’s income, forcibly removing the children from the home to take them to school, and threatening to remove the children from the home permanently. So the Romeikes fled to America, where we...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has informed the Romeike family to prepare for deportation. The Romeikes have been living in the US since fleeing Germany in 2008 while facing charges for flouting a 1918 law forbidding the homeschooling of children. ICE acting Director Patrick Lechleitner defended the deportation order, saying "the Romeikes aren't refugees. They didn't flee a despotic regime. They didn't trek a thousand miles through the jungle or desert to cross our southern border. They are fugitives from justice. We are sending them back so they can be properly punished for their crimes." The deportation is not...

U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement told a German Christian family that was persecuted for homeschooling their children that they needed to prepare to be deported after living in the U.S. for 15 years, says Kevin Boden, an attorney for the Home School Legal Defense Association, who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Uwe and Hannelore Romeike fled with their family from Germany in 2008 after getting thousands of dollars in fines for refusing to stop homeschooling, which was outlawed in 1918, and sought asylum in the U.S. before being granted “indefinite deferred action status” in 2014, allowing them to...

In Germany in 1938, Adolf Hitler outlawed homeschooling.Source: https://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/139Hitler said, “Give me a child when he’s seven and he’s mine forever.”Source: https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Scinto-Hitler-quote-used-to-stress-early-432121.phpHitler’s ban on homeschooling is still in effect in the 21st century.Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20100711123536/https://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1968099,00.htmlIn 2006, Katharina Plett was arrested for homeschooling her own children. Her husband and their children fled the country.Source: https://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1330In 2008, Juergen and Rosemary Dudek were sentenced to 90 days in jail for homeschooling their own children.Source: https://hslda.org/post/hslda-files-asylum-application-for-german-homeschool-familyUwe and Hannelore Romeike and their homeschooled children fled Germany after the police showed up at their house to enforce Germany’s ban on homeschooling. They came to the United States...

…The under-regulation of homeschooling and Christian schools is a nationwide issue – one Americans should be even more concerned about in light of the recent growth of homeschooling and state-funded “school choice” programmes. The book-banning right’s current moral panic over LGBTIQ inclusion and so-called “critical race theory” in public schools, with “parental rights” as its rallying cry, has led to a renewed legislative push for “choice” in conservative states. This follows on the heels of an apparently very successful right-wing effort to use the pandemic to attack public schools – not least over reasonable vaccination and masking policies – and...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on July 11 announced new proposed rules for lead paint in a bid to prevent hundreds of thousands of children from being exposed to the toxic substance. Officials predict that the rule will reduce lead exposures for 250,000 to 500,000 children younger than the age of 6 each year, the agency said in a statement. The mandate would enhance the EPA’s regulations under section 402 of the Toxic Substances Control Act, which would revise the standards for how much lead dust can be on floors, window sills, and other locations in older buildings. “The...

The Washington Post just spent 5,000 words and two years of reporting to smear something it demanded every parent do just three years ago.Record-breaking numbers of families continue to abandon public schools after lockdowns exposed their mass abuse of children, and The Washington Post is willing to descend into tabloid smear mode to try to stop them. Last week it profiled a couple who were homeschooled and have put their own children into public school. The article takes the couple’s side against their own parents, airing wild allegations of systemic child abuse against all homeschoolers based on the testimony of...

Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids play “Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel

n his rousing keynote address at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala last month, then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson offered an unexpected piece of advice: “Don’t throw away your hard-copy books.” Unlike digitized books, films, and albums that can be canceled, rewritten, or vanished altogether, physical copies are “the enduring repository that cannot be disappeared.” With their resurrection of poetry recitation requirements, educators in Georgia and Arkansas are protecting that repository in more ways than one, steeping students in a reality they can affirm, trust, and love. Both states’ departments of education recently proposed revised K-12 English language arts standards...

...The notion of providing a child’s education exclusively in one’s home is not a novel idea. However, as stated by NewsNation in a report updated in 2022, several mitigating factors, including the increasing number of school shootings and violence, as well as bullying have contributed to an uptick in parents eschewing a traditional scholastic environment to teach their kids. While being interviewed by NewsNation and referenced in this same report, James Dwyer, the author of “Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice,” elaborated: “Consistently, parents have reported safety as a concern, but it’s not been mass shootings, even...

Homeschooling is a popular alternative to traditional education for parents who want more control over their children’s education. However, it has been debated for many years, with some people looking down on homeschooling parents and students. After a mother asked an online parenting forum for honest reasons, these are what people confessed. 1. Limited Socialization Opportunities According to several thread contributors, homeschooled children may not have as many opportunities to socialize with their peers. For example, a parent stressed the importance of socialization and pointed out that it’s much more challenging to make friends if children aren’t around other kids...

As it becomes increasingly obvious that homeschoolers do significantly better than victims of government “education” on every academic metric, apologists for the public-school system often fall back on their “socialization” mantra. But under its true definition, “socialization” is hardly something to be desired. And under the commonly held understanding of socialization — gaining certain desirable social skills — the data show clearly that home-educated children outperform public school students on every key indicator. Before examining the issue of “socialization,” it helps to define the term itself. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, it is “the process whereby an individual learns to adjust...

Homeschooling rose to 1 in 10 American kids in 2021 due to lockdowns, and the number has remained high even as lockdowns abated. Most families who began homeschooling due to lockdowns say they don’t plan to go back. Despite the steady increase in homeschooling since its revival in the 1980s, families who choose this way of raising their children often face fearful responses from family and friends. Chief among the concerns is what people often call “socialization.” Sometimes, they mean, “Will your kids have any friends?” Other times, they mean, “Will your kids understand social cues and how to get...

Three years after the March 2020 shutdowns, the legacy of Covid-era policies are still haunting Colorado. History will show the Covid policies pushed by the Governor, State Health Officials, and the Federal Government not only failed to achieve their goals, but caused tremendous harm. Communities suffered, businesses failed, and many individuals were pushed over the edge. Drug overdoses, suicide, domestic violence and record crime are the legacy of the State’s Covid policies. It must not be forgotten how destructive these policies were. And the names of those responsible must be remembered. Sadly, after three years, politicians and state health officials...

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Hey friends! Happy Friday! Today was pretty rushed and we had a different song planned for tonight that we decided to save for later. Colt and the kids learned this song in about 10 minutes. I think this was one of the first times they practiced it all the way through. I was blown away! We hope you enjoy it! This is Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids playing, “Up Around the Bend” by Creedence Clearwater Revival. If you've never seen one of our videos, feel free to read some info about us below. :) Hello everyone! We're the Clark...

Over the first two school years under the COVID-19 pandemic, K–12 enrollment in public schools decreased dramatically—with losses concentrated among the youngest students—and the pandemic has had historically unprecedented effects on available learning opportunities. But we know little about where these students went and what learning environments they are experiencing. Understanding the diverse character of these effects has not been straightforward. The pandemic has complicated the comparability of many conventional education indicators and conventional data from administrators, and surveys on student experiences are often available only after long delays. KEY FINDINGS Over the first two school years under the pandemic,...

The Ohio Department of Education is reportedly investigating a pro-Nazi homeschooling network run by a couple in the state, according to several media outlets. The department is “actively reviewing compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements,” an official with the state agency told The Washington Post, after reports emerged last week about the homeschooling network known as “Dissident Homeschool.” The network, which distributes pro-Nazi curriculum via a Telegram channel, has more than 2,400 subscribers, according to Vice News. The Ohio couple who run the channel, known there as Mr. and Mrs. Saxon, have been identified as Katja and Logan Lawrence of...

Paula Bonhoeffer saw the risks of educating her small, impressionable children in the state’s schools. ... Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), the German theologian who was hanged in April 1945 by the Nazis for spying on and opposing Hitler’s regime. .... Eric Metaxas’ biography of the Christian martyr—Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Prophet, Spy—... time to learn more about the man who defied Hitler and paid with his life. ... Metaxas’ work offers a penetrating look into Bonhoeffer’s life, mind, faith, and family. Bonhoeffer was not the only remarkable person in his family. Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer—Bonhoeffer’s parents—brought eight children into the world in the...