Charlie Reams wrote:Julie T wrote:Indeed, a couple of years ago, despite an international outcry among the Home Ed community, a German Home edded girl was put in a mental institution for not wanting to be sent back to school!
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Link please!
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55730
Jason Larsen wrote:Julie, are you talking about the way George said that?
And, Jason, no, I meant that I was shocked by the treatment of George's sister-in-law, not that he posted it.
Presumably you wouldn't like not to eat unless you get out of your wheelchair. It would be similar to me not feeding my son, Robert, who has no useful speech, unless he asked for what he wanted. Barbaric!
Rosemary Roberts wrote:
Julie, George was only talking about Hitler's final solution as it applied, at that time, to anybody who was considered "unfit". It is not a general principle that holds in Germany at present.
George can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he was relating the attitudes to disability in Germany, just post-war, and saying that these attitudes might have come over here, if the Nazis hadn't been defeated. My example was to highlight that, even in present day Germany, there is still a tendency towards "the state knows best", even if it's not to such an awful degree.
I hope that I'm not coming across as racist! I couldn't bear to watch the BNP leader on Question Time. My eldest is a fluent German speaker, and converses on German websites, and we've had several family holidays over there. I know that sounds a bit "I can't be a racist, I eat curries"
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, however I couldn't think of a better way of putting it. I'm simply against certain aspects of the way Germany is run, as I am also against some of the ways of our own government.
Rosemary Roberts wrote:
I was hoping to dredge up that case to give you an update on it but I can't run it down. I don't think it will have been quite so crass as you make it sound. You are quite right, though, about the general situation in Germany: the law demands not "education", but "schooling". The main rationale at present is that some religious groups would like to prevent their children getting a decent education if they could. Think creationism. In fact when we lived in Germany we knew an American who gave up a very prestigious and lucrative job and relocated to the States rather than risk his daughter learning more about sex that he approved of.
You can always think of questionable reasons for Home Edding, or indeed any other choice in life, although one man's meat is another man's poison. The conclusion shouldn't be that you ban everyone from doing it.
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." Benjamin Disraeli