education

A US Immigration judge has granted political asylum for a family from Germany due to persecution resulting from their choice to home school their kids.

It seems that the German government has an issue with parents who don't send their children to "state" schools, even going to far as to fine or jail those who do home school.  (via the Washington Times...)

The Romeikes home-schooled their children in Germany and
received fines totaling $10,000. On one occasion, Mr. Donnelly said,
police hauled their children off to school. In 2006, the Romeikes
emigrated to Tennessee and continued home schooling their children. Mr.
Donnelly said the family applied for political asylum within three
months of arriving in the U.S.

This is the kind of thing that stems from a mentality that government should have a monopoly on educating children.  It's a mentality that is threatened by a loss of control over messages.  When a government wants to control what children are (and are NOT) taught, there's a motive...and it's a sure thing it's not in your best interest.

Home School Legal Defense Association is reaching out to find Educational Consultants from around the nation.

A 3rd grade student in New Jersey was recently admonished by her teacher for reading her Bible during class quiet time.  The teacher told the girl that the Bible was not "appropriate reading material" and ordered her to put it away.  The girl then put it in her desk, but the teacher told her she had to put it "in her backpack", (to take it back home).

And, if that weren't bad enough, when the girls mother found out about it, she went to the teacher to complain and, getting no where), went to the school's principal - who backed up the teacher in saying that was "school policy".

The mother finally found someone with some sense when she went to the school district, where she was told the school was wrong and it's fine for her child to bring (and read) the Bible at school.  (The mother wants something in writing...and who can blame her).

And from Massachusetts we have a similar issue where the father of an eight year old boy says his son was sent home from school after he drew a picture showing Jesus on a cross.  After complaining about it and the story became public, the father, who works for the school district as a custodian, has had his hours cut.  And before the kid was "cleared" to go back to school, he was "evaluated" to make sure he wasn't a "threat" to himself or others.  From the story:  read more »

Father in heaven, forgive them:

-  I found this on the Huffington Post:    The God Crisis

Another video has surfaced showing kids being led in reciting the praises of Barack Obama.  This one comes from an elementary school in North Carolina.

It just keeps getting weirder and weirder.  Who ARE these people?  What kind of school leadership would think this is OK?

The chorus of this new greatest hit by the way is "Change has come...change has come".

You can check out the first video here.

A video has surfaced of a group of kids at B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, NJ being instructed in what to sing to Obama for a visit to the school.

It turns out, the video was removed from YouTube after it went up...but some enterprising conservative out there had already made a copy, so it's back up and part of the "permanent record", so to speak.

It is, shall we say, "creepy".  View it for yourself.

Just some of the lyrics the kids are singing?

Barack Hussein Obama

He said Red, Yellow, Black or White
All are equal in his sight

Mmm, mmm, mm!

And, in case you didn't notice or don't remember, the song essentially cribs lyrics from the song "Jesus loves the little children of the world".

Incredible. And why should kids be made to be thankful that they're "equal in his sight"?

Can you say "cult of personality"?  I knew you could.

Left-wing judicial activism is running amuck in Obamaland.  Nothing illustrates this more than the decision by a left-wing activist judge in New Hampshire who forced a girl home-schooled by her mother into the public school system.   

In the top story on the front page of "The Washington Times" on September 4th, it was reported that New Hampshire District Judge Lucinda V. Sadler dictated to the mother of a 10-year-old home-schooled girl that her daughter was to attend public schools because of the "rigidity" of the mother's religious views.   The New Hampshire judicial tyrant in her ruling said that the little girl needed to consider other worldviews as she matures.     read more »

As if the fear of big-brother needed to be underlined any further among conservative Christians, we have just that by way of  New Hampshire judge ruling ordering a home-schooled girl to spend some time attending a public school due to the "rigidity" of her mother's religious beliefs.  He suggested that the girl needed to broaden her horizons and consider other worldviews.

Excuse me, but it seems to me that the instruction of children when it comes to beliefs and a "worldview" is the sole prerogative of parents and has nothing whatsoever to do with government.  Or at least that's the way it used to be...and that Americans expect it to be.

But here you go...

The girl's mother, Brenda Voydatch, has engaged the Alliance
Defense Fund, a Christian legal group based in Scottsdale, Ariz., to
contest the ruling, in which the judge granted a request by the girl's
father, Martin Kurowski, that the girl go to a public school.
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Can you imagine what would have happened if President George W. Bush or President Ronald Reagan had announced that they would be addressing the nation's schoolchildren (kindergarten up to high school) in America to urge children to support their tax cut programs, or welfare reform programs, or to consider volunteering for the United States military services?  The left-wing mainstream news media in this country would have gone utterly mad and would have stopped the plan before it came to fruition.     read more »

Conservative teachers within the NEA will call for the union to drop its support of abortion.

The National Education Association will convene for their national meeting in San Diego July 1-6. Jeralee Smith, one of the co-founders of the NEA Conservative Educators Caucus, says one of the items her group has placed on the agenda is abortion.

"The union contributes to candidates who will maintain the current Roe v. Wade decision and make sure that the abortion industry is alive and well," she explains. "And this supposedly is done with the portion of union dues that...is optional. But a lot of times we found sneaky ways that the union supports things that we don't believe in"...