UN-related campaign launched against home-schoolers.
"One of the conditions [for homeschooling home·school or home-school
v. home·schooled, home·school·ing, home·schools
v.tr.
To instruct (a pupil, for example) in an educational program outside of established schools, especially in the home. ] is that the
homeschoolers must sign a document in which they promise to rear their
children along the lines of the UN Convention on Children's Rights The opportunity for children to participate in political and legal decisions that affect them; in a broad sense, the rights of children to live free from hunger, abuse, neglect, and other inhumane conditions. .
These parents have not done this. This is why the ministry has started
an inquiry." Criminal charges will be issued to parents who refuse
to sign an agreement to follow the UN's Convention, 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. Belgium's Ministry of Education spokesman Frank Vandenhrouke.
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