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To: eleni121
The Germans are no different than they were back then during the hey dey of the Nazis..just a veneer of tolerance exists...for the sake of selling cars. When the State - the German state - can forcibly condemn a child to a psych ward..then we have nothing less than Stalinistic procedures embedded in society.

I do not know a lot about this Busekros Mumbo Jumbo since it is practially no issue in the German media. Therefore I can and will not refer to this special case but I can say something to our rules in general:

We Germans do place a high value into religious or educational freedom. But our concept is completely different to American ideas. There is a wide consensus among the German society that homeschooling is not wanted because we like to see the children's right on free information assured. The access to uncensored information is the real educational freedom. On one hand many parents are simply not able to teach their kids due to their own incapability on the other hand it is quite likely that religious extreme parents i.e. deprive their kids the basic information that they need to survive in our society and that they need to think in a free manner. In registered schools certain standards are guaranteed. Parents have the right to give their kids into private schools that meet their standard and also provide i.e. a religious program of their choice. Nevertheless the individual right of the kids on information will always be more important than the collective right of the families on self-determination in Germany.

It might sound quite offensive, but Evangelical Christian parents (that are those who usually try to homeschool kids in Germany from the Christian side) practically do not play a role in our society since they are only very few people. Practically irrelevant. It is unlikely that our laws are changed just because of this handful of Christian homeschoolers since we have to deal with much bigger groups (i.e. the 3.7% muslims in Germany) and their wish to open a parallel society. It would be idiotic to do so, since the outcome of such a policy would be for sure disastrous. Then we are not speaking about the Busekos, Konrad or whatever family anymore, then we are speaking about 500.000 trapped muslim kids that are forced to follow some islamistic cretinism in madrasas (koran-schools) because of a handful of Christian fundamentalists. Christian parents have the possibility into found religious schools that fit into our basic standards. Then their kids are provided with the basic information the German society considers as necessary and the beliefs of their parents at the same time. I have no problem with that. All this hullabaloo about homeschooling in Germany is somehow ridiculous.

Regards from Germany.

Post Scriptum

If someone is not consent with our laws he can leave the country and move within Europe. It is one of the privileges of citizens of EU-member nations to move freely within Europe. I.e. Austria offers the right to homeschool.

59 posted on 10/26/2007 3:15:57 PM PDT by Atlantic Bridge (Avoid boring people!)
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To: Atlantic Bridge
Christians have every right to educate their children in a way that does not conflict with their faith..given that Eurabia has turned its back on Christianity...obviously what is taught in German schools reeks with secularism!

Europe is built on a foundation of Judaeo Christian principles...Muslims or Hindus or any other sect have no right to demand equal time in public school or any other kind of schools. Your statement reveals the fear that Euros are burdened by:

“...handful of Christian homeschoolers since we have to deal with much bigger groups (i.e. the 3.7% muslims in Germany) and their wish to open a parallel society...”

Stop kowtowing to the multicultural secularists who will bring nothing but doom to the continent.

60 posted on 10/26/2007 3:35:58 PM PDT by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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