Posted on 03/23/2010 5:10:58 AM PDT by ConservativeHideout
Sweden is often held up as an example of a model socialist democracy- one where there is material plenty, freedom, and a wide array of social services. It sounds like the best of both worlds, doesn’t it? Well, maybe-kinda-sort of. Apparently, some Swedes aren’t so “free” in the model socialist democracy.
"STOCKHOLM (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of Sweden is taking a hard line against homeschoolers, proposing a bill that will only allow home education under “extraordinary circumstances,” reports the Home School Legal Defense Association. The bill is expected to pass in the Swedish parliament, following a review by the Supreme Administrative Court, and will allow for homeschooling families to face criminal charges.
The news of the socialist government’s hardening attitude toward homeschoolers comes following the state seizure eight months ago of seven year-old Dominic Johansson, whose parents were educating him at home. Since the removal of Dominic by police from a plane the family had boarded with the intention of moving to India, Christer and Annie Johansson have been allowed to see their son for one hour every five weeks.
Despite the seizure of Johansson, homeschooling is not officially illegal in Sweden. But the statist views of the current government are deeply antagonistic towards any movement of citizens away from the state control of education.
Basically, these folks were attempting to leave the country, and they were taken off the plane? What are they going to do next, build an…oh… say… maybe a wall?
SO here we have a socialist state that is very concerned about control. This should not surprise us.
HSLDA said that while Sweden is often portrayed as a “social utopia,” what is not widely known is its antagonism toward homeschoolers, “and, in reality, anyone who deviates from what the Swedish government defines as ‘normal’.”
One American homeschooling mother, Lisa Angerstig, who is married to a Swede, said that the government is becoming “increasingly aggressive,” having already fined the family the equivalent of U.S. $1400.
“Sweden is a beautiful country,” she said, “and the people are very nice. But the government has become increasingly aggressive about education, trying to require that all children go to the state schools. For a country that prides itself on human rights, this type of aggressive behavior is quite shocking.”
What these people are forgetting is that in socialist states, there are no freedoms that are not granted by the government. Therefore, what the government can give, the government can take away. There are no unalienable rights, other than the state’s right to do as it pleases.
Given the stance and actions of our current government, it shouldn’t be a stretch to assume that it can and eventually will happen here. Remember, in the socialist state, all must be indoctrinated. There can be no real dissent, or no real options. Everything is from the state, and all is of the state, including you; body, mind, and soul.
Oh my, this isn’t good.
If the family was immigrating to India and the Swedish government kidnapped the child the only rationale is that the Swedish government views itself as the owner of all children born the country, not the families. Sweden has, in essence, established slavery by taking children away from their families.
It might be good. The fact is that a parent has more influence than a teacher. I don’t see it as entirely a loss to get the good kids with values back into the schools. I don’t mind the idea of kids with a concept of good and evil (and alert parents monitoring daily lessons) challenging the indoctrination that would otherwise go unchecked. Sweden is wrong, but they might regret infringing on the rights of homeschoolers.
That fact that the government would go to such lengths says a lot about what they have intended for your children.
Look for this here in the US, soon.
Parent are more influential, for a while. That’s what the schools count on.
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“That fact that the government would go to such lengths says a lot about what they have intended for your children.
Look for this here in the US, soon.”
How’s that cowering-in-our-homes homeschooling going?
Once again, the culture war must be fought, and won, in the public schools. Hiding in your house with your kids allows the libs to indoctrinate the majority of voters unopposed.
Stand and fight.
The whole purpose of the modern public school is to make the children as unlike their parents as possible. That has been the goal pretty much since the beginning of compulsory schooling.
In the past it was cool for kids to be think differently and it was expected. They eventually became just like their parents.
Now days, not so much.
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