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European Human Rights Court Upholds Nazi Ban on Homeschooling

... on the basis of a Nazi bill of 1938 which banned homeschooling . The court denied a request from the Konrad family to rule that Germany’s ban on homeschooling violates their human rights to educate their own children ...

personal blog entry - Alexandra Colen - 2006-09-28 22:32 - 3 comments

Crackdown on Homeschoolers: It’s the UN Wot Done It

... of Education, says: “ One of the conditions [for homeschooling] is that the homeschoolers must sign a document in which they ... The “inquiry” is a threat to prosecute us. Homeschooling is a constitutional right in Belgium. We have homeschooled four ...

personal blog entry - Alexandra Colen - 2006-06-23 00:35 - 14 comments

Brussels Journal Editor Threatened with Prosecution over Homeschooling

... an official high school certificate. Since we started homeschooling in the 1990s the homeschooling movement in Belgium has been growing. The number of homeschoolers ...

personal blog entry - Alexandra Colen - 2006-06-21 07:29 - 41 comments

Hitler’s Ghost Haunts German Parents

... not allowed to opt out of classes or school activities and homeschooling is illegal in Germany since Adolf Hitler outlawed it in 1938. ... the county whose director, Heinz Kohler, argued that homeschooling cannot be allowed because it is “a right of the child not to be ...

personal blog entry - Alexandra Colen - 2005-08-02 16:56 - 4 comments

Germany Imprisons Mum. Dad and Kids Flee to Austria

... Thursday the German police arrested Katharina Plett, a homeschooling mother of twelve. Yesterday her husband fled to Austria with the children. Homeschooling is illegal in Germany since Hitler banned it in 1938. The Plett ...

personal blog entry - Alexandra Colen - 2006-09-12 22:36 - 10 comments

Catholics Fear France Will Make Home-Schooling Illegal

The fallout from Jacques Attali’s report continues to rain down. The report is a staggering array of 316 proposals to free up the French economy. One topic – education – has been the focus of much concern at the Catholic websites, since it is p ...

personal blog entry - Tiberge - 2008-01-30 13:25 - 0 comments

Homeschool Persecution in Germany

A quote from an email of the [American] Home School Legal Defense Association, 22 September 2006 The German government is persecuting homeschoolers like never before . Armin Eckermann, president of Schulunterricht zu Hause (Scho ...

personal blog entry - The Brussels Journal - 2006-09-28 20:42 - 10 comments

Dutch Government Attempts to Close Islamic School... by August

Maria van der Hoeven , the Dutch minister of Education, wants to withdraw subsidies from one of the two Islamic high schools in the country. The Islamitisch College Amsterdam (ICA) was established in 2001 and has 800 students. Van der Hoev ...

personal blog entry - Paul Belien - 2006-12-07 15:17 - 7 comments

EU Teaches Poles a Lesson in "Human Rights"

Like the French and the Dutch, who rejected the European constitutional treaty earlier this year, the Poles have shocked Brussels by voting politically incorrect. If the Eurocrats in Brussels were able, they would send the Poles back to the polls. Brusse ...

personal blog entry - Paul Belien - 2005-10-29 12:17 - 3 comments

Hasn’t Germany Learned Anything From Its History?

... 2006 European Human Rights Court Upholds Nazi Ban on Homeschooling , 28 September 2006 2007 German Horror Tale , 28 February ...

personal blog entry - The Brussels Journal - 2008-02-24 17:26 - 15 comments

Analyse van het Amerikaanse Paleoconservatisme

... bij uitstek is het snel aan populariteit winnende homeschooling : de opvoeding van je kinderen onttrekken aan de overheid, en ...

personal blog entry - Koenraad Elst - 2006-01-26 13:26 - 6 comments

2007 German Horror Tale

Earlier this month, a German teen-ager was forcibly taken from her parents and imprisoned in a psychiatric ward . Her crime? She is being home-schooled. On Feb. 1, 15 German police officers forced their way into the home of the ...

personal blog entry - Paul Belien - 2007-07-17 17:05 - 9 comments - 1 attachment

Germany: Government Persecution Against the “Socially Maladjusted”

... Human rights advocates are calling the case of a German homeschooling family "a critical human rights battle." On September ... […] Germany is undertaking a crackdown on homeschooling families who face crippling fines, the seizure of their children ...

personal blog entry - The Brussels Journal - 2009-08-31 13:12 - 1 comment

The Changing Face of Europe

A quote from Isabelle de Pommereau in The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2007 Years ago, 180 sisters of the Catholic order of the Sisters of the Divine Savior were the pulse of the city [of Mannheim, Germany]. Today, eight remain. Every weeke ...

personal blog entry - The Brussels Journal - 2007-07-28 11:29 - 29 comments

Belgian Regime Keeps Harassing The Brussels Journal

... police station. Last month they questioned me for homeschooling my children. I will keep you posted.   ...

personal blog entry - Paul Belien - 2006-07-27 09:58 - 18 comments