NewWorldOrder
July 3rd, 2009, 12:06 PM
Perhaps we should be praying for homeschoolers in Europe.
Home schoolers treated unfairly in Europe
A pro-family advocate says home schoolers in Europe are becoming marginalized.
According to J. Michael Smith, president of the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, while home schoolers are enjoying increasing freedoms in the U.S., the opposite is true for home schoolers in Europe. In a recent Washington Times article, Smith states that Germany is the most oppressive when it comes to home schoolers because it routinely fines and imprisons them. Now events are unfolding in Great Britain that could spell trouble for home schoolers in that country as well. The culprit in this case is the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Mike Farris with ParentalRights.org explains. "There was a report that was just issued in the month of June from a British investigator who was appointed by the government to review home schooling -- his name, appropriately, is Mr. Badman; literally, that is his name, Badman -- and he has concluded that England, under the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which has ratified [the treaty], has responsibility to dramatically change the rules on home schooling," he notes.
Michael P. Farris
Currently Britain enjoys similar freedoms to home school as the U.S. Farris says Badman has concluded that, according to the U.N. Convention, parental behavior needs stringent regulation in order to protect the children.
Farris believes it all boils down to which set of adults makes decisions for the children -- parents or the government -- and unfortunately, he says, Britain could be headed down the wrong path.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=588980
Home schoolers treated unfairly in Europe
A pro-family advocate says home schoolers in Europe are becoming marginalized.
According to J. Michael Smith, president of the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, while home schoolers are enjoying increasing freedoms in the U.S., the opposite is true for home schoolers in Europe. In a recent Washington Times article, Smith states that Germany is the most oppressive when it comes to home schoolers because it routinely fines and imprisons them. Now events are unfolding in Great Britain that could spell trouble for home schoolers in that country as well. The culprit in this case is the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Mike Farris with ParentalRights.org explains. "There was a report that was just issued in the month of June from a British investigator who was appointed by the government to review home schooling -- his name, appropriately, is Mr. Badman; literally, that is his name, Badman -- and he has concluded that England, under the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which has ratified [the treaty], has responsibility to dramatically change the rules on home schooling," he notes.
Michael P. Farris
Currently Britain enjoys similar freedoms to home school as the U.S. Farris says Badman has concluded that, according to the U.N. Convention, parental behavior needs stringent regulation in order to protect the children.
Farris believes it all boils down to which set of adults makes decisions for the children -- parents or the government -- and unfortunately, he says, Britain could be headed down the wrong path.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=588980