German authorities continue to persecute homeschooling families. Just weeks after Melissa Busekros was separated from her parents, a court in Saxony stripped Bert and Kathrin Brause of the right to raise their children. The custody of their 5 children was placed with the "Jugendamt" ("youth welfare office"), the same organization that ordered Melissa Busekros to be forcibly seized from her parents and placed in a psychiatric ward.
Yet again the anti-family activists claimed they acted "in the children's best interests", even though the facts clearly state otherwise. The Brause kids didn't fall behind the rest of the children, they were well-educated under the direction of the Philadelphia school, a German homeschooling umbrella organization - yet the officials still view that as a case of child abuse. Why? Because their parents (both with college degrees) deny them "the benefits of the public school". The children enjoy studying at home, they believe that's the best way for them to get an education - in the eyes of an anti-family activist, the children are just lacking independent personality...
So the court ordered the "Jugendamt" to retain the custody of the Brause children until they are returned to public school. Although the kids are still staying with their parents, it's now up to the "Jugendamt" to decide when to send in the police force to have the kids abducted, separated from their siblings and sent to a psychiatric ward to be treated for "school phobia" or transferred to foster families where their parents could never find them. It was done to Melissa Busekros. It could be done to Rosine, Jotham, Kurt-Simon, Lovis and Ernst Brause at any time.
But why would the German authorities want to crack down on homeschooling? How come the Federal Republic of Germany is so eager to enforce a nazi-era law that it would go as far as separating children from their parents and subjecting them to a Soviet-style forced psychiatric treatment? Even if the authorities are so uncomfortable with the idea of kids being educated at home, without socializing with other kids, they could've just allowed homeschoolers to establish private schools of their own. A one-room schoolhouse run by a half-dozen homeschooling families could've become a place for the kids to receive an education and interact with other kids. So why the authorities would keep rejecting such compromise? Apparently, because it leaves the bureaucrats out.
Just think about it - if most parents choose to educate their kids themselves, who is going to need the massive school bureaucracy which has accumulated over the decades? If families unite to establish their own one-room schoolhouses, there will be always enough jobs for skilled teachers. But what opportunities would there be for all those councillors, trustees, superintendents and all others? The only other job for which they'd qualify is flipping burgers.
But that's not all. If parents are allowed to exempt their children from state-run education system - how would these kids find out that abortion is a right? That the so called "light drugs" are harmless? That biologically abnormal lifestyles are worth trying? That profanity is just yet another form of expression? That promiscuity is ok as log as it's "safe"? That Christianity is oppressive and Christian culture is evil? That raising funds for a broke Marxist regime in Africa is more important than helping the unemployed guy next door? That parents who disagree with any of that are just a bunch of narrow-minded biggots?...
Independent schooling is the only way to protect our children from social experiments, abuse and indoctrination. That's why the anti-family activists that dominate the public school system spare nobody in their fight against homeschooling.
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