Since this hits close to home - so to speak, I thought I pass this on. I think if enough people know about this, we can then stand together to keep the right to homeschool here in the US. It is the land of the free and should remain the land of the free!
The U.S. Justice Department says home-schooling is not a fundamental right.
That was the argument the Obama administration made
in federal court against an evangelical Christian family from Germany
seeking asylum in the United States.
Germany broadly forbids home-schooling. So the
Romeike family was forced to flee the country or risk losing their five
children to the German government, which was trying to force them to put
their children in public schools.
The Homeschool Legal Defense Association is working on the Romeike family's behalf.
Michael Farris, founder and chairman of HSLDA, wrote
about Germany's home-school ban in his blog saying, "It is thought
control. It is belief control. It is totalitarianism dressed up in
politically correct lingo."
For more on this important case and its
potential impact on home-schooling in the United States, CBN News spoke
with Michael Donnelly, director of International Relations for HSLDA.
The Romeikes claim their religious freedoms are being violated.
But U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has filed
against the Romeike family in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth
Circuit. He said that asylum should not be granted to home-schoolers
since home-schooling is not protected under religious freedom.
But Farris wrote, "In most asylum cases, there is
some guesswork necessary to figure out the government's true motive --
but not in this case."
"The Supreme Court of Germany declared that the
purpose of the German ban on home-schooling was to 'counteract the
development of religious and philosophically motivated parallel
societies,'" Farris explained.
Source:
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2013/February/Justice-Department-Home-Schooling-not-a-Right/
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