Germany Flexes Its SS Muscles

Germans are so threatened by a particular group of folks that jail-time is mandatory with no appeals. Surely they must be talking about the ubiquitous hooligans , or other Mohammad Atta types hiding out in Germany. Who would these pariahs of society be? They are parents who homeschool their children.

According to this article from CBN, just about anything goes in Germany except homeschooling.

Although attitudes toward homeschooling are changing here…Homeschoolers are still thought of as weird, and homeschooling as damaging to children. And that's an interesting claim, considering what German public school children are exposed to in the classroom.

"In public school, the occult is in all subjects -- be it math, language, or science. There are essays about witches and the occult. They have to practice all week and then they'll write about it. And it gets ingrained into their beings," said Waldemar.

And young school children are exposed to a graphic sex-ed curriculum. Joel Thornton of the International Human Rights Group represents the home school families. "When you get a fourth grade class with a 10-year-old child," Thornton said, "and you're having explicit videotapes that are showing sexual relations going on to the child, to the children in that class…there are boys and girls in that class."

Waldemar said, "We visited a kindergarten where they have places in the classroom where the kids are naked, and no one can bother them and they're playing together." And there is no established parental right to "opt out" your child.

Here's the kicker:

What makes this an especially embarrassing issue for the German government is the German Chancellor who first approved Germany's compulsory education law: Adolf Hitler.

Thornton said "This is word-for-word the Nazi education law…There are parents now that have fines up to $15,000 right now against them for home schooling, and these are families that don't make $15,000 in a year. Without a hearing. Without being convicted of a crime, they have a fine. And there's no appeal to it. All they can do is put their children in school and the fines will go away…the government can come in and confiscate their home and begin selling off their furniture to pay for their fine."

Read the entire article here.