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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Wonder if we'll be taking something else from Germany in the near future. A certain greeting involving a certain person with a toothbrush mustache.
Insanity
The whole world is nits
Oh, heck, just say it — governments can punish anyone they want to. We are all toads under the harrow and our government masters hold the whip.
grrrrr ping
Ah yes. The Committee For Public Safety.
Mr. Robespierre please pick up the white courtesy phone.
if anybody doesn’t already know the real reason they are against home schooling is to indoctrinate in the public schools please raise your hand.
Uncle Adolf would be proud. He won after all.
“Open Society” is George Soros.
Well, get this DOJ, I ain’t having any kids.
You can’t have what I don’t make. You can’t brainwash that which does not exist.
” when the government’s goal is an “open society.” “
So, a society is “open” when parents cannot even educate their children as they wish?
I’m telling you, if they come for your children in this country, load your gun and aim.
Yet obama’s illegal alien, drunk driving uncle and illegal alien, welfare queen auntie can stay? Things that make you go hmmmmm.
No kidding.
I just pinged out a thread with the same title.
Thanks for the ping anyway. Turns out I missed a bunch between being on vacation and my son’s wedding so I do appreciate the notice.
There. Fixed it.
To Holder and the DOJ...
1. This is the USA, not Germany. I don’t care what they do in Germany, it does NOT apply here.
2. I’ll raise my children above the public school system standards. If you have a problem with that, I can get just as nasty as you can.
3. I’m the parent of my children, not you. My children are well cared for, safe and smarter than any of you idiots. You have no right to interject your communist ideals into how my children are raised.
4. Get bent.
It’s already happened in New Hampshire - don’t know how it all turned out in the end, but shocking even for the “Live Free or Die” state.
I think the family’s argument is dumb. they should argue instead that they are doing a better job educating the kids and the stinkin Cherman schools can’t do it because of all the idiots, druggies and doofuses that attend
Oh. I’m only on ARTH, so I guess I missed that ping. Sorry! But I’m thinking of you. :)
They should go to Mexico and cross the border and the whole leadership of both parties can love them
If the Germans are so concerned about “non-integrating parallel religious groups” maybe they aught to leave German families alone and STOP IMPORTING SO MANY TURKS.
Apparently, the court and the lawyer cannot spell.
Its ruling, not it’s ruling.
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