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US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum
A US judge has granted political asylum to a family who said they fled Germany to avoid persecution for home schooling their children. Uwe Romeike and his wife, Hannelore, moved to Tennessee after German authorities fined them for keeping their children out of school and sent police to escort them to classes. Mike Connelly, attorney for the Home School Legal Defence Association, argued the case. He says, "Home schoolers in Germany are a particular social group, which is one of the protected grounds under the asylum law. This judge looked at the evidence, he heard their testimony, and he felt that the way Germany is treating home schoolers is wrong. The rights being violated here are basic human rights."
White Europeans are a minority in this world, this is just Affirmative Action for White Europeans.
Slashdot articles that involve Germany in some way: Your one-stop one-step Godwin's Law chop shop!
I totally disagree. It's the basic right to raise your children with your own views and values
<sarcasm>You are sooo right. I feel so enraged to be denied to teach my children the basic necessary hatred against Americans. How could they ever learn that the highest achievement a person can have is to eradicate Americans in concentration camps? Here is no higher value that that.</sarcasm>
My brother is 26 and he can't even talk to a girl.
Don't talk about me like that ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I got decent math education out of it,
Let me guess: pi = 3?
Thank you for posting that. If people really knew what public schooling was about they'd understand why I keep telling people that sending children there is a form of child abuse.
reminds me of the kid at school who wore religious t-shirts ("jesus, the choice of the last generation" in the style of a pepsi logo). somehow we got on the topic of the upcoming 84 presidential election, and he said his dad was voting against mondale because mondale wanted to allow teachers that were gay. we were in 4th grade. what a role model.
this is just a placeholder till i send back my real sig from the future.
How do you address the social aspects of school? A valuable part of being in school was learning how to interact with new people, larger groups, and authority respectfully and responsibly. Its unfortunate, but part of being a productive adult is working with difficult strangers or at least working around them.
I have a friend who home schools his sons and he told me of a unique solution to the socialization problem: At least once a week, he would take them aside, beat them up, and steal their lunch money.
Prov 9:8 Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.
That's right!
Last thing the US wants to send is some message about welcoming any huddled masses yearning to breathe free...
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
Well, there are a lot of "1st world countries", but some are firster.
And it is always a bit difficult to find a metric for comparing the quality of countries. Myself, I like crime rate http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita and teenage pregnancy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_incidence_of_teenage_pregnancy