Homeschooling wtf!?
October 10, 2012 at 6:41 pm
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2012 at 6:45 pm by Something completely different.)
I have only recently (2 years ago) started to get an interest and to get informed on US culture, lifestyle, politics and sociaty in general.
Now today I have probably had one of the worst cultureshocks ever when I watched the documentary "Jesus Camp". I was aware that, especialy the south of the united states, through it`s calvenist culture, is pritty backwards.
But the "homeschooling" part quite at the beginning of the documentary blew my mind!
A quick explainnation, In germany we have "Schulpflicht" - wich translates to compulsery school duty. This law bounds each parent or guardian to send their child\children to school between the age of 7 to 15.
The curriculum wich is taught at german schools is given by the ministry of science and education. That minestry is bound by law only to take scientific facts and democratic social values into it`s curriculum. Wich means that every school (including religous schools) is forbidden from teaching non science or indoctrinating students with undemocratic ideas. If a school does continue for example to teach creation it looses all goverment benefits (students free public transportation to school, funds to pay teachers, funds to keep school standerds modern) and the school is now longer alowed to teach from morning to fornoon, wich is regular school time, and has to open only during the afternoon, when regular schools are closed.
Parents who are found to keep their students from going to school or homeschool them can end up with a 100 000 to 150 000 euro fine or 2 to 5 years in jail.
If a school is found to teach a intolerant and\or undemocratic set of values, and then refuses to seize teaching those, the school is forced to close by the goverment (police).
Why do we have these laws? These laws first came to be during the enlightenment under the humanistic king of Prussia, Fredrick the great, the goal of these laws was to assure that every child within Prussia (later germany) can have acces to the same education, and that the futur public will be educated.
The status today:
We have a term commonly used in german politics wich is "Parallelgesellschaft" translating into parallelsociaty. By definition it means, that a social, religious or ideologicaly motivated group, wich rejects the pluralistic sociaty the german republic represents, found schools, comunities and isolated cultural refuge to practise their way of life, ignoring the monopoly the rest of sociaty has on law and generaly rejecting the rest of sociaty.
Currently a political debate in germany is how to prevent and outlaw, muslim fundermentalists to form such parallel sociaties.
The reason why we take this so seriously, has like a lot of things, to do with our history. The reason why nazi-germany had so many willing fanatic troops at hand and a unquestioning young population, was because, eaven before they came to power they formed organisations such as the hj and bdm to indoctrinate the german youth parallel to the regular german sociaty and to slowly create a mass of unquestioning citizens. The same was done in the GDR through the FDJ.
Todayyouth partyorganisation still exist but are bound by laws to not use indoctrinary undemocratic methods.
Young people who are just about to the way in wich they perceive the sociaty in wich they live are especialy vulnerable to indoctrination.
In 2003 we had a scandel, when a evangelical christian family was found to homeschool it`s children and taught them creation, the parents were fined with 130 000 euros and their children had to reenter regular public school.
When catholic schools refused to teach sex-education, their schools were almoust closed, untill they accepted.
I believe I can say with certainty that it is generaly perceived amongst the german public that education must have a high standerd and represent scientific fact aswell as the pluralistic nature the republic represents.
I know that exemptions are made in special cases when children are found to ill to take the trip to school. I know that in Austria, homeschooling is allowed, but the parents or guardian get their curriculum materials from the austrian ministry of science and education and once a month the individual has to take a test, wich it must pass to continue his or her curriculum and to prove to the ministry that the individual wasn`t taught things not included in the curriculum.
Why is "homeschooling" legal in the United states?
Dont you see the potential danger of indoctrination lurcking in that practice?
How can one expect to get a job when he or she is tought nonsence from such a young stage?
Is the notorious bible belt a "parallel-sociaty"?
No offence wtf is wrong with you?
Can you justify this practise?
Now today I have probably had one of the worst cultureshocks ever when I watched the documentary "Jesus Camp". I was aware that, especialy the south of the united states, through it`s calvenist culture, is pritty backwards.
But the "homeschooling" part quite at the beginning of the documentary blew my mind!
A quick explainnation, In germany we have "Schulpflicht" - wich translates to compulsery school duty. This law bounds each parent or guardian to send their child\children to school between the age of 7 to 15.
The curriculum wich is taught at german schools is given by the ministry of science and education. That minestry is bound by law only to take scientific facts and democratic social values into it`s curriculum. Wich means that every school (including religous schools) is forbidden from teaching non science or indoctrinating students with undemocratic ideas. If a school does continue for example to teach creation it looses all goverment benefits (students free public transportation to school, funds to pay teachers, funds to keep school standerds modern) and the school is now longer alowed to teach from morning to fornoon, wich is regular school time, and has to open only during the afternoon, when regular schools are closed.
Parents who are found to keep their students from going to school or homeschool them can end up with a 100 000 to 150 000 euro fine or 2 to 5 years in jail.
If a school is found to teach a intolerant and\or undemocratic set of values, and then refuses to seize teaching those, the school is forced to close by the goverment (police).
Why do we have these laws? These laws first came to be during the enlightenment under the humanistic king of Prussia, Fredrick the great, the goal of these laws was to assure that every child within Prussia (later germany) can have acces to the same education, and that the futur public will be educated.
The status today:
We have a term commonly used in german politics wich is "Parallelgesellschaft" translating into parallelsociaty. By definition it means, that a social, religious or ideologicaly motivated group, wich rejects the pluralistic sociaty the german republic represents, found schools, comunities and isolated cultural refuge to practise their way of life, ignoring the monopoly the rest of sociaty has on law and generaly rejecting the rest of sociaty.
Currently a political debate in germany is how to prevent and outlaw, muslim fundermentalists to form such parallel sociaties.
The reason why we take this so seriously, has like a lot of things, to do with our history. The reason why nazi-germany had so many willing fanatic troops at hand and a unquestioning young population, was because, eaven before they came to power they formed organisations such as the hj and bdm to indoctrinate the german youth parallel to the regular german sociaty and to slowly create a mass of unquestioning citizens. The same was done in the GDR through the FDJ.
Todayyouth partyorganisation still exist but are bound by laws to not use indoctrinary undemocratic methods.
Young people who are just about to the way in wich they perceive the sociaty in wich they live are especialy vulnerable to indoctrination.
In 2003 we had a scandel, when a evangelical christian family was found to homeschool it`s children and taught them creation, the parents were fined with 130 000 euros and their children had to reenter regular public school.
When catholic schools refused to teach sex-education, their schools were almoust closed, untill they accepted.
I believe I can say with certainty that it is generaly perceived amongst the german public that education must have a high standerd and represent scientific fact aswell as the pluralistic nature the republic represents.
I know that exemptions are made in special cases when children are found to ill to take the trip to school. I know that in Austria, homeschooling is allowed, but the parents or guardian get their curriculum materials from the austrian ministry of science and education and once a month the individual has to take a test, wich it must pass to continue his or her curriculum and to prove to the ministry that the individual wasn`t taught things not included in the curriculum.
Why is "homeschooling" legal in the United states?
Dont you see the potential danger of indoctrination lurcking in that practice?
How can one expect to get a job when he or she is tought nonsence from such a young stage?
Is the notorious bible belt a "parallel-sociaty"?
No offence wtf is wrong with you?
Can you justify this practise?
