Police take home-taught student to psych ward

[DoctorDoom]

A nation whose education officials already have warned that they will, when necessary, "bring the religious convictions of the family into line" with state requirements, now has removed a 16-year-old girl from her family and placed her in a child psychiatry unit after she turned in below-expected grades in math and Latin.

The news of nearly two dozen officials and uniformed police officers physically taking the teen from her home in front of her shocked family is just the latest horror story to come out of Germany, where homeschooling was placed under a ban by Adolf Hitler and der Fuhrer's law still is enforced.

The stories are concerning to homeschoolers in the rest of the world, including the United States, because of the real potential that international law eventually could be used to ban such activities in places where it now is legal.Police take home-taught student to psych ward (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54082)

And Europe slides in veritable free-fall into the pit of irrelevance and ultimately into oblivion.

[Wolfcounsel]

This is the type of scenario that can cause a certain type of individual to relieve his stress by wiping out the scumbags who are perpetuating this crap. It won't bother me in the slightest if all those cretins get wiped out in a huge slaughter. And if it continues.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

< sigh > The fact is people do not understand home schooling -- it's not the same as public school, nor SHOULD it be. Homeschooling revolves around making sure the child learns, NOT a schedule to be kept or teaching to a test.

From the homeschoolers I am acquainted with and have knowledge of I have seen the same types of patterns -- they learn in spurts, then plateau for a while, then spike up again and so forth. My OWN son did not start reading until well into the "3rd grade" (according to the public school's idea of the class commencement system). However, he graduated (i.e. completed, passed, and scored in the college level on his college placement test) EARLY from high school AND from college dual enrollment. Should he have been taken away from us in first or second grade because he did not perform up to public school standards at the time? Placed in public school, do you think he would have then gone on to do what he did just this past year (graduation from HS & College dual enrollment)? I don't think so Tim.

What part of homeschool-kids-routinely-score-HIGHER-than-public-school-students doesn't this country understand? (Yes, I know this story is regarding homeschoolers in Germany, but you KNOW it will have an impact here -- give fuel to fire the NEA, teachers, administrations, and bureaucrats).

[dPrasse]

And we thought we defeated Hitlers Nazi Germany ....