I have been absent from posting as regularly as I would like on this site as of recent, as I have had many requests and I am actively assisting the plight of parents who wish to be treated equally in the choice of how their child/ren are educated in the child's best interest, for those parents who wish to homeschool their children, or who are been actively persecuted by the authorities and in some cases their children forcibly removed their homes and families in such barbaric ways, as the one that has been highlighted today on the WorldNetDaily online newspaper.
Germany, once again is returning it seems, back to its Nazi roots of the 1930s and 1940s where education and the rights of parental choice and that of the forcible removal of children from their loving and caring parents, siblings and homes. I highlight the news today of a 16-year girl, called Melissa Busekros who was forcible removed from loving parents, siblings and home by more than two dozen officials and uniformed police officers and forcibly taken to a Child Psychiatry Unit of a Nuremburg Clinic.
What was this terrible crime Melissa or her family committed to warrant such hard-handed, hard-hitting and damaging treatment? Melissa is a sensitive and gifted musician who in the 2005-2006 Academic year attended the Ernst High Gymnasium and was told by the school she would have to repeat her 7th year due to her grades in Maths and Latin. Those 2 classes that Melissa attended in those subjects, had high noise levels and cancelled classes and she received no educational assistance whatsoever from the school, which she needed during school hours, which she desperately needed and the school was consistently requested to provide and as she had good grades in all of her other subject areas, her parents decided, in Melissa's best interest and to meet her educational needs, to individually tutor her at home, in a loving, caring and supportive environment. Melissa still took part in her school's Music class and sung in the School's Choir.
At the end of the 2005-2006 Academic year, Melissa, who was now 16 was only required to attend school on a part-time basis legally. However, to make an example of her, the School expelled Melissa. So in Melissa's best interests, her parents continued to homeschool her.
However, the school contacted the Youth Welfare Office, who in turn, created a case in the Family Court and ORDERED that the family appeared at a hearing.
Melissa was held in the Psychiatry Unit for 4 hours and then returned to her family, just long enough for the same Youth Welfare Office to compile and get a Court Order, based on a Psychiatric Report (from a person who had only known Melissa for 4 hours, but who had come to the conclusion, that she was supposedly developmentally delayed by one year and had a School Phobia) to forcibly remove Melissa from her home and family. On Thursday 1 February 2007, only 2 days after she had been returned to her family from the Psychiatry Unit, a FAMILY COURT JUDGE, staff members of the Youth Welfare Office AND 15 Police Officers, marched up to the Busekros home and forcibly removed Melissa and took her back to the Psychiatry Unit.
The Busekros family are now not allowed any contact with Melissa whatsoever, until the Psychiatrist determines that they can, as the official approach in cases of 'school phobia' is to completely prevent 'the patient' from having any contact whatsoever with those people closest to them (in other words to completely isolate and irreversibly emotionally damage both Melissa, her parents and the Belkros family), as they believe that such contact supposedly enables the phobia. However, as an ex-Secondary School teacher, I have many contacts within the Child Development and Psychiatry specialists, who have informed me in their professional capacity, that such contact for School Phobia is actually psychologically and emotionally damaging to the patient and to the family and they believe that this is purely politically, bureaucratically and publicity motivated and actually dangerous both emotionally and medically to the patient.
But how does this LATEST episode relate to homeschoolers in the US?
Such issues are alarming U.S. homeschool leaders.
Michael Farris, cofounder of the Home School Legal Defense Association, has called for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to protect the right of parents to educate their children at home, in light of such developments in Europe.
One of his major concerns is that if the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, a plan already accepted as law by many nations around the globe, were ratified by the Senate or adopted by the federal courts as enforceable international law, American homeschooling could be banned.
Parental choice in educating their children, in the child's best interests are very close to an intolerant dictatorship in Germany and Belgium and the most of the EU is not far behind. Parental rights are more and more abolished. If you do not educate the way the state wants, the so-called Jugendamt (youth welfare office) in Germany, is quick to check out if they can take away the custody of your children.
As long as you practice your faith in a church building you have no problems, but as soon as you act in accordance to your faith, for example, in the education of your children, the freedom ends rapidly. The situation, is likened to that of families under the Nazi regime, or " in the former Soviet Union under the Communism and their is plenty of historical documentary and personal witness evidence to prove that.
The HSLDA has also pleaded for help for the German community.
"The situation, unfortunately, is not getting any better, and they need your prayers and support," the organization said recently. "Most recently, a decision was handed down by the European Court of Human rights (which) � completely turned the European Union Constitution's Article 14, the section on parent's rights to control the education of their children, completely upside down."
That decision will allow any nation in the EU, should it choose, to outlaw homeschooling. "Meanwhile, the German homeschoolers continue to be unmercifully persecuted. In WorldNetDaily's last report on homeschooling, they explained that there were approximately 40 families in court at one stage or the other. Families are having to flee regularly to other foreign countries in order to continue homeschooling".
I was always taught and I have taught my son and I very strongly believe in that if you don't object to an action of an individual, an organisation, a state, etc... to an action, that you're actually condoning it by not objecting it. What is happening now, is not scare-mongering, its not a phantom, or a figment of my imagination, it's a real threat to every parent's individual right of choosing what is in the best interests of their child.
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