Letters to the Editor
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sorry, ms. anthropia
I have other things to do than track all of your Broadsheet posts over various topics. You and I will just have to agree to disagree about a ban on religious headgear in schools.
Tina--Interestingly, it isn't just England and Spain that have homeschoolers. Homeschooling is legal in almost all of the European Union nations (though not as prevalently practiced as in the U.S.), except for Germany.
It was, apparently, legal there until 1938. The Nazi regime put an end to that because allowing children to be educated outside of direct state supervision could contribute to "the emergence of parallel societies based on separate philosophical convictions."
Sorry, I just don't buy that a compulsory, state-run education with no allowances for religious garb is an "oppression-free zone."
For the quote on the German homeschooling ban: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52603