Mar. 8, 2007 - Watching for the signs...
As Americans we have such a hard time wrapping our heads around the problem the Busekros family is having. Why and how could a government act so harshly? One thing we need to understand is the Germans are very proud of their school system. Appreciating their Education System is paramount to patriotism. To buck the school system to them is like spitting on the American Flag to us...you just don't go there. Also, I don't think they really give a hoot what we think here in the US. They are a proud nation, what we think does not phase them in the least.
Lest we become like a nation that submits their children to the state as the total authority on how to educate on academics, socialization, moral values, religious freedom, and even immunization - we must strive then to hold firm to our parental rights and freedoms to raise our children as we see fit.
Excerpts from State Strives to Recapture Homeschoolers
By Michael Haverluck CBNNews
The government's takeover of education
Today, many would find it hard to believe that education was never addressed in the United States Constitution, nor was it discussed at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The government would like citizens to believe that it reserves the right to educate the nation's youth, yet their right was never bestowed upon it nor was it stripped away from parents.
The post-civil war industrial revolution started to mainstream public schooling to meet the economy's needs, not the children's. factories forced parents out o their homes and pushed children into the schools, where they became conditioned for work in the industry and indoctrinated into a national mindset that forwarded the government's agenda.
Socialism, moral relativism, evolution, pro-choice, multiculturalism, environmentalism, gay rights, self-esteem training sand sex education are all politically correct/fundamentally wrong concepts promoted in the public schools that have taken their toll on the conservative and biblical values that have formed the backbone of American society.
Through the public schools, the government has played monopoly int he game of education since the turn of the 20th century, controlling the board and children's lives ever since. The recent homeschooling movement, which now provides instruction for 4 million children in the United States, is seen by bureaucrats as usurping their unbridled authority over the education system. Dire attempt to stem this burgeoning exodus from schools have been made by the state at virtually any cost.
Warnings from the past and present
The powerful lesson that state-run schools can lead an entire nation into a dngerous mindset over time can be understood by noting the controlling communist, fascist and socialist regimes from the not-so-distant past. Given the current trend of limiting parental authority in the education of one's children, it is quite possible for histor to repeat itself.
Just how serious are today's governments in keeping their tight-fisted control over education? Ask the Busekros family in Germany, who had their 16 year old daughter stripped from the in a raid by police officers and placed in a psychiatric ward because the Youth Welfare office claimed her homeschooling father had too much control over her thinking. She is also diagnosed with suffering from "school phobia."
