HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION
Posted on 01/11/2005 7:37:31 PM PST by Born in a Rage
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January 7, 2005
"Homeschooling Illegal" Declares German School Official Seven homeschool families in Northwest Germany are being forced to enroll their children in public school. The Paderborn County school board has levied fines against these families and ordered the children to attend school by Monday, January 10, or the police will forcibly take them to school. Any resistance by the parents will result in the removal of these thirteen elementary age children from their homes and into state custody! Despite the lack of state recognition in Germany for homeschooling, these families pulled their children out of public school earlier this year to begin teaching them at home. Their primary reason, as Christians, was to protect their children from the humanistic and godless values being taught to their children in the public school. While the school district responded by stating that homeschooling is illegal, the parents' maintained that their fundamental rights as parents would be violated if they were forced to return the children to public school. All of the families obtained excellent packaged curriculums from German correspondence schools, and demonstrated to school officials that their children were receiving a proper education. Heinz Kohler, the county education director, dismissed the families' beliefs, stating, "you and your children are not living in isolation on some island but rather in an environment posing intra- and extracurricular situations where you'll have to accept that your world view will be curtailed." Mr. Kohler further explained that homeschooling could not be allowed as "children should not be encapsulated or kept apart from the outside world. In these cases, the parents' rights to personally educate their children would prevent the children from growing up to be responsible individuals within society…" German homeschoolers have seen much persecution in recent months, and this action by Paderborn County affirms that the problem has not been solved. The United States has been blessed for many years with the freedom to homeschool. Germany does not have this freedom. If American homeschoolers do not try to help "the least of these," then who will aid them? Requested Action "The seven homeschool families in Paderborn County should not be forced to return their children to public school. A parent's right to direct the education of his children is a fundamental right that should be protected. We request that you urge Heinz Kohler and the county school board to drop the pending fines against the families." We encourage you to rephrase this message in your own words and include a few paragraphs in your letter describing the benefits of homeschooling to your family. It would be best not to include the word "homeschool" in the subject of your e-mail, as that will make it too easy for the embassy to filter it out. The whole family should participate in this project of writing letters to the German Embassy. This is a great educational opportunity for your children to learn the importance of the freedoms we have in the United States and how easily these freedoms can be taken away. Your decision to contact the embassy may determine the success or failure of the German homeschool movement. Wolfgang Ischinger The embassy can be e-mailed from its website: http://www.globescope.biz/germany/reg/index.cfm You may also contact the local German officials involved in the case: Landrat Paderborn: Mr. Manfred Mueller [landrat@kreis-paderborn.de] (county official) President Nordrhein-Westfalen: Mr. Peer Steinbrueck – Local media 2. Pray for endurance and protection for these courageous families. Your e-mails and calls work! A few years ago, the Harder family in Germany was facing two years imprisonment for homeschooling. Your calls and emails caused the German authorities to dismiss the Harder case within three weeks! Protests from overseas can change the views of the German government. Thank you for standing together for freedom with your fellow homeschooling families around the world.
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This is a truly disgusting story, showing how the leftists truly believe we all belong to the state, before and exclusive of our rights to belong to ourselves or our families.
no = nothing (oops)
Vee have Vays! Who says that the Nazi's were defeated in 1945?!
Kind of reminds us all of "Pre WW II" Germany?
Don't it?
Herr Hitler certainly agreed.
How dare they try to avoid our re-education camps!</sarcasm>
The conspiratorial new world order is fast approaching.
May God watch over these families. I would be heartbroken and more than in a rage.
Or vee vill send you to ze kamps! Christen Raus!
Germans always have had HARD Heads and they take awhile to learn ANYTHING!
You can suppress the Nazi Party, but you can't stomp out the Nazi mindset so long as Satan roams the world seeking the ruin of men's souls.
How about,
"We request that you arrest and try Herr Gruppenfuher Heinz Kohler and the county school board under German anti-Nazi laws."
*bump* for action...
Yes, it's pretty scary stuff. Funny thing is, our homeschooling family is learning German. What would they think of us if went to visit Germany?
The German people have chosen, by virtue of the kind of scum they habitually elect to public office, the kind of secular socialism that the Democrats over here want for America. I hate to say it, but the Germans are getting exactly what they deserve.
I am writing to you with regards to the homeschool families in your county who face official persecution for exercising their fundamental right to educational freedom and choice. It occurs to me that parents have been successfully educating their own children for as long as there have been humans on the planet, or else our species wouldn't still be here! Furthermore, children are not state property to be taken according to some bureaucrat's whims, and at some point SOMEONE had to make a discretionary decision. I wish to make you aware that there are many eyes outside the borders of your country that are focused on these goings-on, and how you deal with these families will determine my own spending habits regarding German products and services. Indeed, I was hoping to be able to visit Europe at some point in my lifetime, but maybe I might reconsider travelling through such a jurisdiction such as yours, which purports to own children above the rights of their parents! I will also advise anyone of my acquaintance who values the freedoms that are the birthright of children and parents to make their economic decisions accordingly. I hope you will soon see common sense. As God is my witness, we will be watching.
What do you all think?
I just asked my Congresswoman to contact the German Embassy. That might have more pull than just li'l ol' me, if she does it...and she's been pretty good on this stuff before, so she just might.
Good for you. *thumbs up*
Move them to the US, forget Germany
Makes sense the whole public school lie is of Prussian invention
Home schooling was always the best way to teach your own kids what they needed to learn
imo
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