In Germany, 3 families face fines, frozen accounts for homeschooling their children
A German family has been subject to threats from the National Socialist government of Germany, because they’re trying to homeschool their children. The family wants to raise their own children, to oversee their sex education, and protect them from the occult (hmm, I wonder why they’d be worried about sex-education in sexually deviant Germany). Specifically, the government has levied fines on them, frozen their bank accounts, and even threatened to sell their house. The German government is even tyring to steal their children from them. Sound familiar? That’s because it is a preserved remnant of Hitler’s regime:
Melissa had fallen behind in math and Latin and was being tutored at home. When school officials in Germany, where homeschooling was banned during Adolf Hitler’s reign of power, found out, she was expelled. School officials then took her to court, obtaining a court order requiring she be committed to a psychiatric ward because of her “school phobia.”
German gestopo officers have even brought children from their homes to public schools. When families objected to this, the government’s response: “In order to avoid this in future, the education authority is…look[ing] for possibilities to bring the religious convictions of the family into line with the unalterable school attendance requirement.“. Yes, the German government seeks to forcibly alter the religious convictions of families, to bring them in line. In the case of the family in question:
In Melissa’s case, the local Youth Welfare Office arrived at the family home with about 15 uniformed police officers to take her into custody. They had in hand a court order allowing them to take her into custody, “if necessary by force.”
The family is asking for the prayers of fellow Christians, and appreciates support from anyone. They have received numerous letters of support.
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You can’t make a social democratic fascist omelet without breaking a couple of liberty eggs.
Some governments never learn. Germany’s still National Socialist after all these years (they do have military slavery by the way). Russia’s still Communist.
May the German government fall faster than Mike Nifong’s bogus case.
It is not governments which don’t learn… governments are merely doing what thet can get away with. It is people en mass which seem to be incapable of learning.
Well, to be fair, a lot of Germans left a long time ago… I know there were very good reasons why my family decided to get out.
I think the nail in the coffin for Germany — and possibly all of western Europe — was forming a “European Union” and making Brussels the capitol.
Who needs argumentation when you’ve got reductio ad Hitlerum? With such an outrageous story you don’t really need to go down that road to make your case anyway.
reductio ad Hitlerum…
It’s appropiate if the law actually dates to Hitler and hasn’t been repealed since.
It’s appropiate if the law actually dates to Hitler and hasn’t been repealed since.
It is basically the same law, although legislated in different times. Makes no difference: BAD law is still BAD law, and the Germans should know better.
I’ll agree that saying “Hitler liked something” is an appeal to emotion and isn’t an argument. It does however engage the emotions, and I think there’s nothing wrong with that when an argument is offered in parallel.
In Germany education is the responsbility of the individual states (lander) rather than the Union.
For example education is rather different in Bavaria than it is in Hesse.
It would be interesting to know if home schooling is banned in all states (by Federal law) or is legal in some states.
re Brent’s “Well, to be fair, a lot of Germans left a long time ago…”
I’m from Eastern PA so as a point of pride some of those who left were my ancestors (though I can’t take any credit in their decision). Thanks guys!
Dutch-ly,
-Jack
It is fascinating to see collectivist language like this on this blog: “[T]he Germans should know better.”
Although schooling is in the responsibility of the individual states, there is no state in which homeschooling is not illegal in some way. However, penalties and punishment may differ. That you can even read news like the one reported by David is due to the growing movement for homeschooling. Some years ago nobody would have been interested in what happened to these families.
I call it a “kinder, gentler” form of national socialism, and I don’t find the analogy inapt.
Europe remains divided along its classical nation-state lines, and the theory is that with people of common heritage, everybody will put their shoulder to the wheel and welfare will be used judiciously as a social safety net. Families, religious orders, mutual insurers, and sports leagues all prove it can be done, but I’ll leave it to the reader to discern the differences between these entities and national governments.
In practice of course, birth rates and the ethic inevitably decline and immigrants are brought in to keep the Ponzi scheme going. National unity fades and as people begin to transfer their loyalties to non-state entities, the government enacts laws to discourage activities like homeschooling that threaten its existence.
Yes, the germans are evil. I think that the brits and yanks should drop some white phosporous on them. Better at night. Oh, and call it ‘collateral damage’.
I disagree with the government not allowing children to be homeschooled. But this type of control is prevalent all over the world.
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(Rothbard, Education Free and Compusory, p. 14)
Why is anyone shocked to hear the German State is going after people who try to homeschool their children?
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