The issue in this case has actually gone beyond home schooling, because the German government has made it clear they intend to take the children away from their parents so that they will be forced to attend public school.
While this legal eagle is right that there is no civil right to home school, there most certainly is a right for parents to raise their children, without fear that they will be taken away, not for criminal behavior on the part of the parents, but only because of social policy.
Oddly enough, Obama probably hopes against hope that someday the US courts will allow the government to take children away from their parents because the parents are, say, politically conservative.
Oddly enough, Obama probably hopes against hope that someday the US courts will allow the government to take children away from their parents because the parents are, say, politically conservative.
I doubt he needs "to hope against hope" for such power: the Department of Fatherland Security could easily cook up a list of "known terrorist organizations," start rounding up and redistributing children, and count on a tame Democratic [sic] party judge to call it legal. He'd probably rather disarm the workers and peasants, but I'm sure if he wanted to take children away from patriotic parents, he could make it happen this week.