Children are being nationalised - 2 February 2010 |
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Gerald Warner has some sharp observations about the decision of the US authorities to grant political asylum to a German family who were (to quote Judge Lawrence O. Burman, who made the decision) facing ‘a well-founded fear of persecution’ because of their decision to homeschool their children.
This is something we in the UK should be worried about, says Warner. For ‘our rulers subscribe to the same tyrannical statist philosophy’ that underlies state opposition to homeschooling in Germany. Whether or not we happen to be homeschoolers – or for that matter, whether or not we even have children – all of us ought to be share the Americans’ concern about ‘the creeping totalitarianism that has engulfed Europe.’
‘Children are being nationalised,’ claims Warner. The British government’s most recent attempt came in the shape of the Badman Report. After that, they might try just about anything.
If this blog had a category called ‘Shameless Appeals,’ I might just think to mention this…
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Posted by Steve Jeffery · Topics: Current affairs, Minister's Blog