Homeschooling:
The Empire Strikes Back
By DICK MORRIS
Published on
DickMorris.com on March 19, 2013
With over two million children now schooled -- usually quite well --
at home, the education establishment and the teachers unions find
themselves leaking students at an alarming rate. Driven by bad
public education, the threat of school violence, and a virtual
prohibition against values-based learning in government schools, more
and more Americans are taking advantage of their right to homeschool
their children. The very success of their experiences -- as
measured by test scores, jobs after graduation, and college admissions
-- are violating the fundamental credo of the education hierarchy: That
all children must go to schools we run.
Now the Obama Administration is doing the bidding of the union and the
establishment by challenging the grant of asylum to a German family that
migrated to the United States in order to homeschool their children.
Uniquely in Europe, homeschooling in Germany is illegal and
indistinguishable from chronic truancy in the eyes of the authorities.
In order to avoid what German law refers to as a "parallel society", the
Fourth Reich seeks to assure that all children are shaped by the same
influences in the same classes at the same schools.
The Romeike family didn't see things that way and wanted to homeschool
their children. After harassment, threats, and the prospect of
losing custody of their children, they fled to the United States where
homeschooling is welcomed.
A Memphis judge approved their request for asylum but the Justice
Department -- which does little to stop twelve million people from
coming here illegally -- thought the case worthy of their intervention
and got the Board of Immigration Appeals to overturn the Memphis
decision and order the deportation of the Romeikes.
Through the auspices and intervention of the Home School Legal Defense
Association (HSLDA), the Romeikes are appealing the verdict to the Sixth
Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. They argue that the right to
homeschool is a decision of conscience protected under the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights. These documents all attest to the power of
parents to direct the moral and religious education of their children.
But the case goes far deeper than the right of asylum.
Homeschooling is providing an increasingly viable alternative as the
ranks of adults with college education increases, the quality of public
schools drops or stagnates, and the refusal of government schools to
offer any sort of values education. The number of homeschooled
students has risen from 1.5 million in 2007 to over 2 million in 2012
and is growing ever more rapidly.
This movement to protect children on the one hand and our societal
values on the other deserves our support and we must stand with those
abroad who seek the same right to homeschool we all enjoy.
Please take a moment to
sign this
petition to urge the Department of Justice to drop its case against
the Romeike family and permit them to stay in the U.S. to homeschool
their children.
Click
Here To Sign The Petition To Protect Homeschooling!
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