Ah, Deutschland.
Thursday September 14, 2006
The German government has imprisoned a homeschooling mom for the crime of ... homeschooling. Her husband and their children have fled to Austria.
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Damn, I forgot to mention: that neo-pagan culture thing, that was very astute of you Andrew. We (neo-pagans) were hoping to do a stealth move under the secularist trappings of New Age and steal some thunder from the atheists, then when the moment is right come out and claim our rightful place as the high priests and priestesses of Satan.
And, of course, our supply of victims for ritual sacrifice would be assured by your gay and lesbian allies.>
The level of paranoia that drives some homeschoolers borders on the bizarre. Like, I need to join a cult and move onto a compound with all of my relatives and a polygamous leader bizarre.>
Thank you, eCurious. God gave my children to me, not to the state. The state has no business monitoring and running our lives, and frankly I want their hands off my kids, who by the way are bright, advanced readers, radiantly healthy, well-mannered, and a great challenge to any public school child in our city.>
Franklin!! What are you doing giving away the secrets? Now they're going to be suspicious and believe that all those homeschooling friends that they've been making are really homeschoolers.>
While I support parents' ability to homeschool, I'd like to point out that all states do not monitor homeschoolers. Here in Texas, where Rod blogs from, there are really no checks on homeschoolers. Yes, the law does say that you have to "meet basic education goals of reading, spelling, grammar, mathematics and a study of good citizenship." However, there are no checks on this, no appointments with any agency, no standardized tests. Basically, there is no enforcement of that. FWIW.>
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