No parental rights for schooling.Gelsenkirchen -- German police stormed into the home of Katherina Plett and arrested her for home-schooling her children. She was taken to the local jail, where she served a ten-day prison sentence for violating the law against home schooling home schooling, the practice of teaching children in the home as an alternative to attending public or private elementary or high school. In most cases, one or both of the children's parents serve as the teachers. , a law that dates from Nazi Germany. Her husband gathered the children together and fled to Austria, where he found asylum at a Christian family centre in Wolfgangsee. Mrs. Plett's arrest came as the latest outrage in a struggle between seven families in Paderborn and local education officials. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the board's director, "The parents' rights to personally educate their children would prevent the children from growing up to be responsible individuals within society." Manfred Muller, governor of the Paderborn district, justified charging home schoolers with "High Treason," saying that "the obligation to attend school is a civil obligation that cannot be tampered with." According to the Brussels Journal, Muller also threatened to charge 68-year-old Hermann Stucher, with "High Treason" and incitement in·cite tr.v. in·cit·ed, in·cit·ing, in·cites To provoke and urge on: troublemakers who incite riots; inciting workers to strike. See Synonyms at provoke. of the people against the authorities. Stucher had called on all Evangelical parents to withdraw their children from German public schools, which, he alleges, are dominated by "neomarxist activists propagating atheist ATHEIST. One who denies the existence of God. 2. As atheists have not any religion that can bind their consciences to speak the truth, they are excluded from being witnesses. Bull. N. P. 292; 1 Atk. 40; Gilb. Ev. 129; 1 Phil. Ev. 19. See also, Co. Litt. 6 b. humanism, hedonism hedonism (hē`dənĭz'əm) [Gr.,=pleasure], the doctrine that holds that pleasure is the highest good. Ancient hedonism expressed itself in two ways: the cruder form was that proposed by Aristippus and the early Cyrenaics, who believed , pluralism and materialism." There is no indication that Catholic authorities are standing up for the rights of these parents (LifeSiteNews.com, Oct. 25, 2006). The European Court of Human Rights European Court of Human Rights: see Council of Europe. ruled recently in favour of Germany's ban on home schooling, saying that "Parents may not refuse the right to education of a child on the basis of their convictions." A home schooling parent had appealed to the Court that the ban violated their right to ensure that their children were educated "in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions." Comment: The behaviour of the German civil authorities is unacceptable and the ruling of the European Court European Court could mean:
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