"Homeschooling Illegal" Declares German School Official

HSLDA ^ | 1-07-05

[lmr]

I didn't realize that there were any Nazi's left in Germany, guess I was wrong. I will See what e-mail and letters will do...

[JSteff]

This is an N.E.A./dem/liberal dream. All children under control of the state. No education not under the auspices of the approved teachers.

Will it happen here?

[upchuck]

Pingers

[freebilly]

"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…"

Bullsh!t! My 3 youngest children are being homeschooled. They have iceskating lessons once a week with other kids their age. They have dance lessons with other kids their age. They also have violin lessons with peers. They play little league baseball and have aikido lessons. They take hunter safety classes with friends and just went to Hawaii for 10 days where they made friends with kids that they're now emailing.

I'm almost tempted to send them back to school to cut down on their socializing and exposure to the outside world....

[freebilly]

ps, the two boys are also being taught physics by a friend who holds 40 patents in RF and microwave technologies. I'd stack their educations up against those of ANY public or private school in America....

[Angry Republican]

Thank God I live in the U.S.A. Sometimes one just doesn't realize how good it is actually is here.

[jpsb]

physics is easy if you are good at math. math (calculus) is the key to science

[Malesherbes]

"your worldview" i.e. Christianity "will be curtailed." That does indeed have a Nazi ring to it.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - Education - Survive

[rawhide]

I wonder if there are private Christian schools in
Germany? I am all for homschooling, but if these parents lose, they would private school be an option?

[floridarolf]

I see the whole thing different. The people are total whackos and look like Hippies. There is an older article at Spiegel Online where you can see a picture of them: http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/0,1518,324298,00.html.

There is another article that describes how they got busted: http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/0,1518,323695,00.html - hilarious. They live in a small village in southern Germany. They had set up guards because they knew the police would come to arrest the parents. When the guards saw the police cars coming the sounded the alarm by blewing into horns. How crazy is this? Then the church bells started ringing and the whole crowd gathered in front of the church and started singing.

This is a sect. In the year 2005 it's not good for children to educate them in a parallel universe at home away from all "sins". Life gets faster everyday and these people don't let their children keep the pace. I think they should send in the police and get the kids out of there. When they turn 18 they may return. If the parents make trouble send a riot squad.

[critilo]

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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.

YES! the leftists in germany BELIEVE in the state.

[floridarolf]

Now the first link works: http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/0,1518,324298,00.html

[SAMS]

As long as you bring wonderful American dollars with you to spend they could care less where you taught your children. I have been living in Germany for almost 4 years, they hate us, but they love the way Americans spend money!

[floridarolf]

Their is no fundamental right to educational freedom in Germany. All schools are supervised by the state. You can send your kids to a private school but these are also supervised.

[coydog]

The right exists as a human birthright, whether the state chooses to recognize it or not. Sometimes, these arrogant prigs need a little (rhetorical) clobberin'

[baseballfanjm]

I'm almost tempted to send them back to school to cut down on their socializing and exposure to the outside world...

I'd love to present a line like that to the anti-homeschool crowd. With their myths about the sanity of homeschooled kids, they'd flip.

[floridarolf]

The Hippies



Their compound


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[An.American.Expatriate]

While I wholeheartedly agree that this action is deplorable - unfortunately, that is the law in Germany (and almost everywhere else in Europe!!). There are private schools available to which these people could send thier children (alot of them are run by the Church). What they are doing is in open defiance of the the laws and, unfortunately, they will have to bear the consequences if they do not comply.

It is socialist and wrong, but no amount of protest letters from us to the German Embassy will ever change this.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Your "hippies" are actually quite mainstream for Germany!!

In other words - these people are dressed in a manner which is not untypical of others in thier age group!