Thread: EDITORIAL: Home school The Europeans don't like it

Now tell me is this a religious freedom thing...personally I don't think so....

Mar. 08, 2010
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EDITORIAL: Home school

The Europeans don't like it

It's "our fundamental right to decide how we want to teach our children," says Uwe Romeike, an evangelical Christian and concert pianist who sold his treasured Steinway to help move his family to the United States -- and who last month became the first immigrant to be granted asylum here over the issue of educational freedom.

The European slave state which the Romeikes escaped? Germany.


A German appeals court in 2007 not only affirmed a lower court's decision that removed a different 15-year-old home schooler from her family, but also ordered her parents to be given psychiatric evaluations.

The Romeikes decided to uproot their family in 2008 after they'd accrued about $10,000 in fines for home schooling their three oldest children and police had turned up at their doorstep to escort the kids to school, "by force if necessary."

Wolfgang Drautz, consul general of the Federal Republic of Germany, explains that government figures it "has a legitimate interest in countering the rise of parallel societies that are based on religion or motivated by different world views and in integrating minorities into the population as a whole."

On Jan. 26, a Memphis immigration judge made the Romeikes the first people granted asylum in here because they were persecuted for home schooling.

At which point -- are you ready? -- in late February, the Obama administration formally appealed the Romeike ruling, expressing concerns that the already heavily backlogged immigration courts would be flooded with asylum petitions from home schoolers in countries "typically regarded as having non-repressive governments, including Spain and the Netherlands," which allow home schooling only under exceptional circumstances.

But liberty is liberty, even if the regimes threatening parental freedom of conscience are "typically regarded as having non-repressive governments."

The Memphis judge was right to grant the Romeikes asylum, because U.S. law covers social groups with "a well-founded fear of persecution" in their home countries.

As to the notion that federal immigration officers -- who couldn't find one of our estimated 10 million illegal immigrants with both hands in a La Raza parade -- are now suddenly concerned about being "swamped" by a few hundred legitimate European asylum seekers? Hey, good one.

So long as they do it by the book, let's reiterate: Send us your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free.

That's what America's for.

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/home-school-86816907.html

Kathyet

Is the United States one of the last that will allow homeschooling? There is more of a support system and legal representation available here, to those who are forced to flee from government punishment because they choose to homeschool. Parents who want freedom to teach their children should not be financially penalized or hauled off to jail as many now are.

Psalm 91

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Slowly but sure, they will be next.

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

Is the United States one of the last that will allow homeschooling? There is more of a support system and legal representation available here, to those who are forced to flee from government punishment because they choose to homeschool. Parents who want freedom to teach their children should not be financially penalized or hauled off to jail as many now are.

Psalm 91

They are trying to stop home schooling here as well...they can't indoctrinate our children if the parent's continue to home school, they are already trying to change our History as we speak. Before we know it our children will have no knowledge of what, why and how this Country started.... so we need to keep a watch on that as well.

That being said it doesn't mean we should use that as another pre- requisite to allow more into this Country. We need to slow down on all immigration not inhance it...if they weren't flooding our Country with illegals we would have fewer problems. Instead we need to take a step back... regroup..and consider the people already here first...

What is wrong with fighting to stop that from happening in their own Country. What is the real purpose they want to come here.

I would be wondering what it is that they may or may not be wanting to teach their children. Religious beliefs can and should be taught in church or home. To me that doesn't have anything to do with the reading, writing, arithmetic, history etc...the things that are taught for a well rounded balanced education...blurring the lines of Church and State must not be done... Education and Religion are two separate things they need to be kept as such.


Kathyet

Kathyet wrote,

They are trying to stop home schooling here as well...they can't indoctrinate our children if the parent's continue to home school, they are already trying to change our History as we speak. Before we know it our children will have no knowledge of what, why and how this Country started.... so we need to keep a watch on that as well.

Just wondering what group of people would make up a majority of home schoolers?


[/quote]blurring the lines of Church and State must not be done... Education and Religion are two separate things they need to be kept as such.

Perhaps the several states could make and draw their own judgments. Perhaps localities could as well. When you look back through European and American history, how much separation was there between education and religion? The schools of higher learning were atheistic or secular?

I would be wondering what it is that they may or may not be wanting to teach their children.

Provided they receive a good education and can test out at the various levels, what business is that of mine?

Religious beliefs can and should be taught in church or home. To me that doesn't have anything to do with the reading, writing, arithmetic, history etc...the things that are taught for a well rounded balanced education.

Then by all means that is the way you should teach YOUR children. Many people have been raised and educated in religious institutions of learning. Try and separate religion from history. Not just in this country, but any other. But I digress, perhaps half a story is better than none at all.

Is it really that hard to see where state mandated education is leading? Really?

Decades ago some people understood where our educational system mandated by the feds was headed. I am old enough to validate that their fears were correct. Here we are. Things are rosy?

People are free to cut their own noses off. Have at it. If they did not like the schools of the past in their districts when prayer was still in school, they were free to leave. Like the results?

As a former homeschool parent, I appreciate the freedom to teach a chosen curriculum, that also included teaching of the Bible. We must realize the serious threat to our nation, when our children are forced to follow a specific curriculum that may not include the early part of American History, and that may not include other teachings that are essential for good citizens. Mess with our children, indoctrinate them, and they will turn on us, as well as the nation.

We, as Americans, must be on alert that liberals and socialists are trying to get control of the textbooks, eliminate references to the founding fathers in certain states, revise history to highlight their planned agenda, and they also want to teach students and workers to be dominated by the state (government). They want servants, that will salute the government, and snitch on parents who oppose their plans.

They also want erasure of God and Christ from society.

We must teach our children to be the people and the citizens that keep our nation strong. We must teach them to stand for something, to know why to believe as they do, and then to speak out against those who threaten this freedom. They need to read the Constitution and some of the early writings of the founders, else they fall for anything.

* Something I read from the posts above. Our kids are getting more and more garbage and social engineering in schools, yet too many leave with unsatisfactory grades in reading, writing, and arithmetic, all necessary to be truly successful.

Psalm 91

Perhaps it is time to end the Federal Dept. of Education. States rights?

roundabout wrote

Perhaps it is time to end the Federal Dept. of Education. States rights?

Yes. and then there is the chokehold of the Unions that fight to keep teachers who should be terminated.

Yesterday, Glenn Beck's show was about the indoctrination of children in schools. Toward the end, he suggested that parents sell a car if necessary to give children a chance in their education, without brainwashing.

Psalm 91

We have them surrounded.