Saturday, April 28, 2012

Just keep voting Liberal, we'll get there.

Sweden bans home schooling.

Before 2010, it was possible to home-school in Sweden. But new laws now ban the practice in almost all cases and forces private schools to teach the state curriculum.

Swedish human rights lawyer Ruby Harrold-Claesson calls what's happening in Sweden a "parental inquisition."

"Sweden's treatment of parents in the area of education is totalitarian, essentially. They want to take children from birth to graduation and control them," said Michael Donnelly, director of international relations at the Homeschool Legal Defense Association.

Donnelly claims Sweden's treatment of parents violates established standards of human rights.

"In fact, the U.N. Declaration on Human Rights signed in 1947 actually says … that parents have a 'prior right' to decide the kind of education their children should have," he explained.

But Sweden's ambassador to the United States said, "The [Swedish] government does not find that home schooling is necessary for religious or philosophical reasons."

Remember my friends:  "EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY." T.H. White.
Also: "Not turning up to riot is a failed Conservative policy." Kate McMillan

The MOLON LABE!!! Phantom.

1 comment:

WiFi Lunchbox Guy said...

I suspect the homeschooling ban is the early stages of something much more sinister than mere thought control.