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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."
I suspect you might be in the minority with your reasoning for home schooling. Don't the majority of home-schoolers do it because they're afraid of evil secular concepts like evolution and geological history? As far as I'm concerned, as long as home schooling is used to shelter children from real information, or present it from a "religious perspective", it should be outlawed. Even with a strict set of rules for curriculum, there will still be parents who give extra qualifying information along with such topics.. ie.. Here's all the nonsense that secularists believe, and here is the real truth according to the Holly Bibble. The material is still covered, and you can't eliminate that loophole, so the only solution is ban home schooling outright.
That's right, because everyone should know that they belong to the state. Opposing views are treason, and traitors are shot.
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
They seemed to not want their kids to have a balanced education, instead they wanted them indoctrinated into their own religion from an early age.
Which is entirely within their rights and responsibilities as a parent. Whose responsibility should it be to select a religion for those children?
Further I humbly submit that religion in general is not bad for children and there's no basis for outrage against it.
there needs to be a check and balance to ensure that the kids are being taught the same or better than kids in a regular school
False. This violates the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution. You cannot come into my home and check to see how I am teaching my kids without a warrant and probable cause, without following due process.
Maybe there should be standardized testing, and recommended curriculum, for all schools including home schools.
Nope. I will educate my kids, and you will not be privy to the details or results. It's literally none of your business, nor the government's.
Otherwise what is to stop someone from brainwashing their kids under the guise of homeschooling?
In a free society, what business is it of yours? Who decides what "brainwashing" is? Today teaching anti-evolution science is "brainwashing" to many people; tomorrow maybe teaching anti-global warming will be. Perhaps it will be "brainwashing" to teach kids that homosexuality is sinful. You and I will disagree with some or all of those things, but how can government reasonably step in and decide them for a free people?
Government has no role here. Not in a free society.
And I'd argue that it's the children's right NOT to be brainwashed by their crazy parents. How will these kids function in society when all they know comes from the bible?
You are either grossly misinformed, or you have a vested interest in the current system, or you are just trolling.
Well, religion, being a form of schizophrenia
False.
I won't bother to read the rest of your post, if you make such a fundamental error right at the beginning.