Another German homeschooling family faces prison for trying to educate their children as they see fit. Why, fifty years after victory over the Nazis, does this Nazi-era law stay on the books? And will Barack Obama sign an EO making that the law here?
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Puh-leeze, you know you'd love it if your state could mandate that children attend a Christian school.
"the court reaffirmed in a separate case that Germany has an equal interest with parents in the raising of children. This followed a series of decisions that said banning home education is constitutional because it helps prevent the development of parallel societies, and that public school attendance can be mandated to help ensure that children learn to live tolerantly with each other."http://www.hslda.org/hs/international/Germany/201505010.asp
Gosh, what a depraved rationale for insisting that kids attend school.
Why, fifty years after victory over the Nazis, does this Nazi-era law stay on the books?
And will Barack Obama sign an EO making that the law here?
Conservapedia demonstrates why that law is probably a good idea. And I say this as someone who was homeschooled for several years. However, my parents aren't fundies, so I was actually homeschooled rather than homskuld .
Ideally, the law should allow parents to homeschool their children but require them to take some kind of standardized test once or twice a year to prove that they're being properly educated on the same level as children who attend a regular school. Children should only be required to attend a regular school if they or one of their siblings fail the test twice (or if several siblings fail the test once). That would be adequate proof that their parent(s) either cannot or will not adequately educate their children themselves (or pick someone else to do the job), so they should lose the right to homeschool.
Either way, what Germany does is a major step up from the situation in the US. If the Nazis implemented this, then that would only mean they somehow miraculously managed to actually have the right idea about something. Still, there's one thing that automatically negates any "right idea" points in their favor. People who play the Godwin card already know exactly what that thing is.
Well, it could certainly help stop Nazis because neo-Nazi parents can't homeschool their kids and teach them how awesome Hitler was and all that. Maybe we should do the same here in the US and stop people from teaching kids things like the world is 6,000 years old, the US was founded by fundamentalist Christians as a fundamentalist Christian nation, Hitler and Stalin were radical Darwinists who were motivated by Origin of the Species, set theory is sinful and ungodly, the Bible foretold all the scientific discoveries of modern times, that Conservapedia is a reliable website, etc.
@ Miles Gloriosus:
Oh, look, your knowledge of government is no better than history. Sit down and shut up.
And these people want to teach their own children.
@shy :
I have a better idea. Allow parents to homeschool their children only if they can get a teaching license. Which, of course, would require them to get a college degree.
I once knew a family who homeschooled, and the mother was barely literate. I mean, seriously. I read a statement written by her and you literally couldn't make heads or tails out of what it was trying to say. This is the same family who set off a couple of bug bombs in their house... then went to bed. Then had to be rescued by police & EMS.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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