Pete Chagnon of OneNewsNow reported on 8/19/2009 that the founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association says home schooling in Sweden will soon be banned altogether, with a few minor exceptions. Mike Farris says that Sweden will ban all home schooling except for children with medical exemptions and foreign workers with the appropriate work visas. "That's it. People who have religious convictions or are home schooling for religious reasons will not be given one of these very rare exemptions," he points out. "And so for all intents and purposes, home schooling is going to be banned in Sweden. They're following the German statute, following the German model." In Germany, parents face stiff penalties if they are caught illegally home schooling their children. The Romeike family recently left Germany and is seeking asylum in the U.S. after facing stiff fines and the potential loss of custody rights for home schooling their children. The Home School Legal Defense Association is offering them legal help. Editor's note: Obama and the Democrats want the United States to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which would supercede any constitutional guarantees or judical precedents that we have in our nation. Most European countries, such as Sweden, have already done that. What if some unelected, unaccountable U.N. bureaucracy, and that is who will administer the CRC, decides that homeschooling should be banned everywhere? For a society like ours, founded on individual freedom and parental rights, this so-called "treaty" is a VERY bad thing!