Brazilian Families Want Legal Homeschooling
By Julio
Severo
A
group of families made a 12-hour trip to be in Brasilia, Brazil’s capital city,
to attend a vote in the Brazilian Congress on homeschooling. The vote was
postponed, but the presence of these families and their children touched the
hearts of many congressional representatives.
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| Homeschool families in the Brazilian Congress |
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| Congressmen touched by homeschool families |
The
ideological opposition by the Workers’ Party is reminiscent of the Workers’
Party in Germany some 80 years ago. In fact, this was the National Socialist
German Workers’ Party, also known as Nazi Party, which banned homeschooling in
Germany in the 1930s. After the ban, national socialist dictator Hitler said, “The
Youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set
before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this
community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are
still unperverted and therefore unspoiled. This Reich stands, and it is
building itself up for the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give
its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education
and its own upbringing.”
Hitler’s
ban is in place in Germany even today. Germany, which is tolerant of many kinds
of radical Muslim practices and customs from its Islamic immigrants, has been radically
intolerant of every homeschooling practice of Christian parents.
Germany
is a long way from one of the most important founders of the modern German
language, Martin Luther, who said,
“I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless
they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the
hearts of youth.”
About
the Brazilian government, why should it imitate the German government behavior
against Christian parents? About the Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who was an
admirer of the Soviet Union, why should she keep a ban on homeschooling? Why should
her administration persecute Christian parents who homeschool in a Christian
way?
The
Soviet Union no more exists. In modern Russia, homeschooling is legal. In my pro-life
and pro-family meeting in Moscow two months ago, one of the most prominent
homeschool leaders in the world told me that Russia has several homeschool
curriculums. In today’s Russia, it is not a crime to homeschool. Why in Brazil
is it?
CBN
News, of Pat Robertson, reported
that Russia “is one of the freest nations in which to homeschool.”
“We
have complete freedom of home education in Russia, in terms of legality,” Pavel
Parfentiev, a family rights advocate in Russia, said.
“The
Russian Federation is sort of a champion of human rights in this particular
area, so of course I think it is a good example for both Germany and Sweden
where home educators are persecuted,” he said to CBN News.
If
Rousseff admired the old Russia much, why should she admire new Russia less?
She should allow homeschooling and even imitate a Russian ban on gay propaganda
to protect children.
She
should not imitate Germany, which is intolerant of homeschooling by Christian
parents, but extremely tolerant of Islamic radicalisms.
Rousseff
should make a trip to Russia and learn basic lessons of freedom, protection and
educational choices for children.
She
should ban homosexual propaganda, not homeschooling, to minors.
Portuguese
version of this article: Famílias brasileiras querem legalização
da educação escolar em casa
Source: Last Days Watchman
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