Are there no children who come out of the public school system who “function poorly”? What about public schools that still engage in “social promotion”, or entire schools that have kids functioning below grade level?
I am not saying that it is taught in public schools or even taught well. What I am saying with critical thinking is that it should be taught whether in schools or at home, and unfortunately, many parents today are not able to teach critical thinking because they are not able to do it themselves.
Umm… this is a German law. The US is not shutting them down, it is just not granting them asylum.
Exactly.
Sure there are. There are bad schools and bad parents. That is why things like this need to be on a case by case basis. Children need a good solid education. Therefore, there has to be a means to ensure that happens regardless of who is doing the educating. In the case of public schools, there are charter and private schools to send kids to if the public schools are not doing a good job. In the case of homeschooling, there are public, charter, and private school alternatives if the parents are not doing a good job. If you elevate homeschooling to the level of a right that cannot be infringed, then you take away the mechanism to remediate a situation where parents are not good educators.
The fact that the goal is desirable does not make the means desirable.
It should not grant them asylum. Unless there are actual threats to basic human rights taking place, the US should not be interfering or making a statement about the laws of another country.Exactly.
The neo-nazi argument is flawed.
So, basically, this issue has nothing to do with the homeschooling issue.
I have a right to free speech. But there are limits to what I can say.
Fair enough, but what about parents who cannot afford private school, or areas where there are no charter type schools (don’t they tend to be more urban than rural?)
Really? This country should deport them…and deprive them of providing a home school education in the good ol’ USA? And allow their children to be confiscated?
your hypothetical, when fleshed out, might provide grounds for asylum, but those are not the facts here.
It is incredibly hard to put limits on rights. Look at the current gun control debate, you can’t even get mandatory background checks through because gun ownership is a right.
The answer to those problems in my opinion is still not to make homeschooling a right, but to increase the options that are available to people.
There is a law in Germany that bans homeschooling. They are not persecuting anyone, they are enforcing those laws. If the law should be changed, and I believe that it should, because I do not believe a total ban is the right answer, then it should be changed through the democratic process in Germany. Asylum is for people whose basic human rights are being violated, that is not the case here. There is no reason for the US to get involved in this fight.
Yes they could have moved to any one of several countries where home-schooling is quite accepted in the same sort of way an American can move from one State to another.
you mean its hard to put additional limitations on established rights like those in the second amendment. the inability to get background checks isn’t a constitutional issue, at the moment, its the political consequence of the president’s incompetent bumbling. background checks may or may not be constitutional, depending on how the unwritten rules are written.
What I recall of this case is that the Romeikes didn’t present a shred of evidence. They had one German activist give anecdotal and unsubstantiated testimony and didn’t even provide the text of the law they claim to be persecuted under. What we do know is that the Romeikes chose not to follow the established procedure to seek an exemption, broke the law, then left the country all on the advice of an activist organization in Germany