Uwe Romeike and his wife Hannelore work with their children at home in Morristown, Tenn., in this March 13, 2009, photo. The couple have moved into a modest duplex home while they seek political asylum because they say they were persecuted for their religious beliefs by home schooling their young children in Germany.
The facets that define a totalitarian state are often hard to discern; there is always the risk of pushing the argument too far, evoking unsuitable analogies with the fascist governments of the last century. Nevertheless, a spade is spade, and this story of the persecution of a German family point to a dangerous state of affairs.
After the police came knocking, dragging their children off to school, Uwe and Hannalore Romeike and their three children applied for, and were thankfully granted, asylum in the US. Their crime? Educating their children in their home, rather than at school. Judge Lawrence O. Burman, a federal immigration judge in Tennessee, determined that they had a reasonable fear of persecution for their beliefs if they returned. He described the German Government’s actions as “repellent to everything we believe as Americans”.
Germany is not alone. In Sweden, a coalition led by a so-called Liberal party is getting tough on homeschooling, with the proposed introduction of a bill that would only allow home education under extraordinary circumstances. It would also allow the imposition of criminal sanctions on those parents that refused to supplicate to the will of the state.
And in the UK, the government is ignoring the Schools Select Committee in its call to make the registration of home-educated children voluntary. The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) defends its position as follows: “we cannot understand the logic of making it voluntary”. I can help them answer their confusion: because these children are not owned by the state.
There is much talk of how under Obama the US is becoming a socialist dystopia. Sure, things are bad and getting worse, but as the asylum offered to the German home educators illustrates, they still have a fair way to fall before they hit the strictures on freedom infesting the Old World.
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Home-schooling was made illegal in Germany by the Nazis in 1938, so there is a connection along the lines as indicated in the article. But when the Americans occupied Germany after the war, why didn’t they insist on making homeschooling legal again? So Germany owes the prohibition of homeschooling to the USA.
Immediately when they get the copyrigth things made and information sharing griminalized as it DOES mean they will mke homeschooling imbossible and ensure you cannot acces higer education after home school by directly jailing people from universities doing so.
My mother says “nononono thats no reason to protect copyrigth infrigments”.
Stupid and old facioned people. Modernly EVERYTHING is calculated with perfect logics and it is EASY to proove that if you can stop pedophilia not based on rape but just the act you cn sensor the material and if that material is sensored shortly you must make people to fall into block patter no matter what just like in China.
The deeper we go the harder it is to return.
Yes I can proove this with totally perfect farmerjack logics. Yes you can always arque it but will find it imbossible to do that for too long.. :) :)
Slobo I bet she was a nigger whore
Nigger whores don’t give a shit about their spawn.
alfred
Slobo’s mother “Nigger whores don’t give a shit about their spawn”
Well that’s why Slobo is a shit “son of a Nigger whore”
how big it was,slobo :-D ?
My Mother schooled me at home…she used a wooden spoon…