Posted on 08/30/2013 11:39:05 AM PDT by grundle
Four children, ages 7 to 14, have been forcibly taken from their home by police armed with a battering ram, and their parents have been told they won’t see them again soon, all over the issue of homeschooling, according to a stunning new report from the Home School Legal Defense Association.
HSLDA, the world’s premiere advocate for homeschoolers, said the family of Dirk and Petra Wunderlich has battled for several years Germany’s World War II-era requirement that all children submit to the indoctrination programs in the nation’s public schools.
The shocking raid was made solely because the parents were providing their children’s education. HSLDA discovered the paperwork that authorized police officers and social workers to use force on the children contained no claims of mistreatment.
“The children were taken to unknown locations,” HSLDA said. “Officials ominously promised the parents that they would not be seeing their children anytime soon.”
The raid, which took place Thursday at 8 a.m. as the children were beginning their day’s classes, has been described by observers as “brutal and vicious.”
A team of 20 social workers, police and special agents stormed the family’s Darmstadt, Germany, home. HSLDA reported a Judge Koenig, who is assigned to the Darmstadt family court, signed an order authorizing the immediate seizure of the children by force.
“Citing the parents’ failure to cooperate ‘with the authorities to send the children to school,’ the judge also authorized the use of force ‘against the children’ … reasoning that such force might be required because the children had ‘adopted the parents’ opinions’ regarding homeschooling and that ‘no cooperation could be expected’ from either the parents or the children,” HSLDA said.
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Amen.
At the least the government should have a probable cause against the parents before it reaches over their heads and attempts, it its idiocy, to “protect” their children from them.
Do you think that in America if a homeschooler parent does not teach anything, beats the children up, etc. the government would not intervene? There are standards for homeschoolers; there are laws against child abuse.
It could be there are other countries like that; this thread just happens to be about Germany. I respect and in many ways admire German civic spirit. But in this case all I can see is a gross violation of the rights of the entire family, parents and children alike, and it is plain barbarity.
Count me added to your list, please.
Done.
I join in your wonderful prayer.
The federal government is pushing to have a "Common Core" curriculum mandated for all schools including parochial and homeschools?
Not likely.
I was referring to the ripping of children from their parents by government for educational reasons. Government already rips children from parents deemed unsuited for parenthood for a whole host of other reasons.
Specifically related to education, private, religious, Christian, and home schooled children in the US have a large enough lobby to at least have some power. You are correct about common core being a problem as the standard will apply to testing which catches all of the school types and will infect the entire nation if not stopped in its tracks. Another agenda 21 issue that states have bought into without much oversight.
My state is one of those where the decision was made to implement common core by a State board without the consent or even knowledge of the Legislature, and now the effort is being made to recover from those decisions after at least an 8 million dollar expenditure. It will not be easy as the Dept of Ed has bought in hook line and you know the other word.
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