German Home Schooling Case Update
If this isn’t a human rights abuse, I don’t know what is:
Court-ordered foster care replaces psych ward
German homeschool student still can’t tell parents where she is
Posted: February 20, 2007; 1:00 a.m. EasternAn international human rights organization says the 15-year-old homeschool student taken from her home by a SWAT team and deposited in a psychiatric ward on a judge’s order has been allowed to contact her family.
“Melissa called her parents today to tell them she was moved to another mental ward. She was then moved to a ‘clearing house’ and finally to a foster family; but she was unable to tell them where she is now,” said a statement from the the International Human Rights Group, which has tried to involve the international community in the attack on homeschooling in Germany.
Joel Thornton, the president of the IHRG ….. reported (that) a five-hour court hearing was held on Friday, but that resulted in no immediate decision when social workers refused to accept a compromise that the judge and Melissa’s parents had worked out.
“This is a precedent that’s going to affect not just Germany,” Thornton said. “This is an extreme case, even for Germany, but it won’t be extreme any more if they get away with it.”
Especially if the situation is brand-new to you, read the whole thing.
There is no “crime” here except, in the eyes of the German government and its “social services” system, the act of homeschooling a child. The German N-word applies to the state’s tactics. A high-level intervention, up to and including Angela Merkel, is desperately called for.
NixGuy has a comprehensive roundup of previous links.
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Guard the Freedoms We Have…
In America, the freedom of American parents to educate their own children is recognized under the law….
Trackback by Preserving Liberty — February 22, 2007 @ 12:22 am
I have a bit more information on my blog, if you are interested. It includes a translation of the psych eval done on Melissa, the court report and various links and summaries as they come in.
Comment by Dana — February 23, 2007 @ 12:33 am