Intolérance de la secte laïciste : en Belgique aussi on sévit contre
les parents (universitaires) qui éduquent leurs enfants �* la maison
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1114
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1121
(J'ai mis fr.soc.sectes en honneur �* la secte laïciste, pardon
humaniste, qui semble vouloir embrigader les enfants de tout le monde)
Since we started homeschooling in the 1990s the homeschooling movement
in Belgium has been growing. The number of homeschoolers is small,
comprising only 202 children in primary school and 311 children in high
school. Nevertheless the figure has quadrupled in the past five years,
as parents are seceding from the official schools where drugs and
violence are rampant and pupils are indoctrinated with political
correctness and socialism.
The fact that a growing group of children seems to be escaping from the
government's influence clearly bothers the authorities. Three years
ago a new school bill was introduced. The new bill refers to the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and it obliges
homeschooling parents to fill out a questionaire and sign an official
"declaration of homeschooling" in which they agree to school their
children "respecting the respect [sic] for the fundamental human
rights and the cultural values of the child itself and of others."
The declaration does not specify what "respecting the respect for the
fundamental human rights and the cultural values of the child itself
and of others" means. It states, however, that government inspectors
decide about this and adds - and here is the crux of the matter -
that if the parents receive two negative reports from the inspectors
they will have to send their child to an official government recognized
school.
My husband and I have refused to sign this statement since we are
unwilling to put our signature under a document that forces us to send
our children to government controlled schools if two state inspectors
decide on the basis of arbitrary criteria that we are not "respecting
the respect for the fundamental human rights and the cultural values of
the child itself and of others."
According to the Ministry of Education we have violated the law. The
judiciary asked the police to take down my husband's statement, but
he refused to sign any document. He was informed that he might soon be
taken to court.