Hitler still rules Germany
Submitted by Wayne on Tue, 2007-02-06 10:09.
Homeschool
From HSLDA:
The situation for homeschoolers in Germany is getting worse each week. Just last Thursday, a 17-year-old homeschooled girl was forcibly removed from her parent's custody by over 15 police officers. The homeschooled girl has been placed in the child psychiatry unit of the Nuremberg clinic.
Homeschooling is not legal in Germany. There are over 40 cases currently in court or being appealed. Christian families are fleeing Germany for safety in nearby countries. The unconscionable treatment of sincere and faithful Christian homeschool families is a sad legacy from Germany's past. Homeschooling was first banned under Adolf Hitler, and that ban is still enforced today.
Many families who have had their children forcibly taken from their home each day and taken to government school have since fled Germany, but there are still some homeschoolers. The latest incident involves 17-year-old Melissa Busekros, the girl sent to the Nuremberg psychiatry unit. What is being done to this sensitive girl--just to set an example of enforcing the compulsory schooling at all costs--is reprehensible and causing trauma to unassuming and lovable Melissa.
In the summer of 2005, when Melissa was 15, she was told she would have to repeat the seventh grade at the government school because she was failing math and Latin. She had good grades in the rest of her classes, so her parents tutored her at home for those two subjects. When the school officials found out they were angry and then expelled Melissa, so the family began to homeschool full time.
However, the Youth Welfare office then took the family to court because they were homeschooling. Then, on Tuesday, January 30, 2007, social workers and police officers came to the Busekros home and forcibly took Melissa to the child psychiatric unit where she was questioned for four hours before she was returned home. Then two days later, 15 police officers and social workers came to the Busekros home and took Melissa away from her parents by force and placed her in the child psychiatric unit.
According to Melissa's father, Hubert Busekros, this treatment was justified by the psychiatrist's finding two days previously that Melissa was supposedly developmentally delayed by one year and that she suffered from school phobia.
If it can happen in Germany, it can happen here. Wait until a few bad apples spoils homeschooling; the rest of us will be treated as criminals (more than we already are).
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Update from HSLDA
Submitted by Wayne on Thu, 2007-02-22 19:53.
This month we explained to you what happened to the 15 year old German
girl, Melissa, who was being homeschooled, how she was removed from
her parent's home by 15 police officers and social workers, and placed
into a psychiatric unit at the Nuremburg clinic for school-phobia (the
account can be read at
http://www.hslda.org/elert/arc... ).
We have now received even more shocking news. Last week the German
authorities, without consulting or informing the parents, moved
Melissa to an undisclosed location. Her contact with her family has
been limited to a short conversation once per week. Last Friday the
court met to determine further placement of Melissa. The court refused
to change its decision but removed the first psychiatrist from the
case (Melissa indicated that most of what the first psychiatrist
reported was false and that she never said those things). The court is
having two new psychiatrists examine Melissa.
Melissa has been moved--for a third time--to a foster home in the
country. The first foster family didn't want Melissa anymore because
she did not "fit." According to Melissa, the family was apparently
bothered by her reading French and translating it into German.
Melissa's father, Hubert Busekros, said he and his lawyer were offered
a compromise this week that they could not accept. The authorities
wanted the Busekros's to give up custody of their other five children
in order to resolve this situation. Hubert said the authorities are
considering doing psychiatric exams on the other five children in
order to implicate Hubert and his wife as unfit parents and thereby
break up the family.
These actions against this homeschool family are an outrage. There are
approximately 40 other cases pending in Germany. Many homeschool
families have fled to Austria or another nearby country where
homeschooling is legal. The German government is persecuting these
innocent families without mercy. The German Embassy has indicated they
cannot allow "parallel cultures." Christian homeschooling is a
"parallel culture" that Germany does not want.
girl's best interests
Submitted by Wayne on Thu, 2007-03-15 06:05.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/n...
The State has girl's best interests in mind, it says. This girl is so traumatized, I'm sure, she may never get over her kidnapping.
Lord tarrying, I expect the same thing to eventually happen here, too.
Melissa is back
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 2007-09-04 15:50.
I should have posted this back when it occurred (May of 2007), but Melissa Busekros is once again with her family. There is actually a bit of a story associated with her return. While being held in a foster home, Melissa had the good fortune to become 16 years old, at which point different German laws applied to her. On the night of her birthday, she simply left the foster home and walked to her parents' house, surprising them at 3 AM. In the aftermath, the German government has declared that while they were not wrong in their actions, Melissa is no longer in any "danger" from her homeschooling parents.
We can praise God for answering our prayers and returning Melissa to her family. However, this does not change the situation of many other homeschooling families in Germany and other countries. We must pray for them as well.
School papers, please
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 2008-01-09 10:23.
The un-Godly insanity continues in Germany. This article tells of a German family that has left their home country for England because the German government was on the verge of forcibly removing their children from their home. Another family has been split apart, with the husband leaving Germany with the kids, and the wife staying behind to look after their business.
I would like to think that this will never happen in America, but in fact it is already beginning. Homeschooling is effectively illegal in California, as well as other places if the governmental bureaucracy decides to make things tough for you.
Rather than the heavy-handed techniques employed by ze Cherman government, I expect more insidious methods will be used in America to make homeschooling less attractive, such as cutting off avenues to employment or higher education for homeschoolers. Alternatively, they could turn homeschooling into a bureaucratic nightmare, much as the BATFE is doing to gun store owners these days. The inescapable fact is that homeschooling is in direct opposition to the interests of a tyrannical government, and so the government will do what it must to eliminate its influence.
It's worse
The girl Wayne mentioned in the post has been removed from the psych ward and taken to an "unknown location." The message is clear. Parents in Germany have no rights. Der Stadt will raise their kids. They can cooperate or... well, that isn't really relevant.
Remember, Germany is a democracy, and democracy means freedom. Therefore, by definition, anything a democratic government does is automatically willed by the people. (Thanks to Rousseau for that bit of sophistry.)
Now, America is a "democracy," too....