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03-08-2007, 10:37 PM | #1 | |
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Has anyone one heard about the incident where a perfectly sane and normal homeschooled girl in Germany that was taken away from her parents? I think that its terrible, especially since I too am homeschooled.
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What are your guy's thoughts on this?
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03-08-2007, 11:16 PM | #2 | ||
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Well I heard about this story, I think they may have reacted a little harshly. But it is clearly noted that they were breaking the law. In principle I don't think the government should dictate education (as I've said before almost everything the govt. touches, turns not to gold but to crap). I'm a fan of free choice adn former homeschooler myself, that notwithstanding its against the law of that land so those people don't have a whole lot to go on with the exception that the Govt's response was rather disproportionate to the severity of the crime.
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03-09-2007, 12:11 AM | #3 |
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I think the way that it was done was very odd and overblown.
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03-09-2007, 01:38 AM | #4 | |
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But it is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say to much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place. -Meriadoc Brandybuck Is there anything I can do that wouldn't inconvenience me?.-Adrian Monk Hogan: What's a definate factor that we can count on? Newkirk: We don't know what we're doing. Do you wanna split a pineapple? -Shawn Spencer Last edited by Meriadoc Brandybuck : 03-09-2007 at 02:05 AM. |
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03-09-2007, 02:03 AM | #5 |
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I think that that law is discriminating. Why did they keep it as a law even after Hitler? It's not like the parents are torturing their kids or something; they're just teaching them at home! There's nothing wrong with that (unless they somehow do it in a way that's against the law besides that it's illegal there.)
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03-09-2007, 04:12 AM | #6 |
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The article is somewhat slanted, and I feel like I'm missing some information to form a decent opinion on this. However, while I'm no big fan of homeschooling, it does sound like the system over-reacted big time. On the other hand, if they sent her to a psychiatry unit, I can't help but thinking some trauma must already have been present.
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I am much more worried by your posting this zealotry and militant fundamendalist army activism here on a tolkien board.
To say it is slanted is beyond recognition - and that is me being traditionally understated. What i hated was the 'WHAT YOU SHOULD DO NOW' part and the radical fundamentalist rally crys to defend and enlist what is effectively a dangerious splinter group, every bit as fundamental and dangerious to society as the Muslim fundamentalists that are causing havoc in the world. An actively enlisting and increasingly separatist christian movement looking to withdraw from the modern world and any form of state education and who utlimately wish to see the destruction of the west as we know it. (btw read what i actually say before replying - i shall say this only once - and that in a french accent! ) Last edited by Butterbeer : 03-09-2007 at 06:32 AM. |
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