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Homeschool defenders in
the United States are wary of proposed legislation in Alberta, Canada,
that could set a philosophical precedent for government intrusion into
what parents are allowed to teach their homeschooled children. ~ Erin Roach

“This is concerning to
us because this is the first time we’ve seen anything like this on North
American soil, where a government has actually proposed to include
homeschools in a law that would constrain what parents could teach their
children or to alternatively require them to teach something in a
certain way,” Michael Donnelly, staff attorney for the Virginia-based
Home School Legal Defense Association, told Baptist Press.

At
issue is section 16 of Alberta’s proposed Education Act, which states,
“All courses or programs of study offered and instructional materials
used in a school must reflect the diverse nature and heritage of society
in Alberta, promote understanding and respect for others and honour and
respect the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Alberta
Human Rights Act.”

In the Education Act, homeschools are
considered schools, and the Human Rights Act has been used in Canada to
target Christians and conservatives who believe homosexual behavior is
wrong.

The U.S.-based LifeSiteNews presented Alberta Education
Minister Thomas Lukaszuk’s assistant director of communications with a
test case regarding the proposed legislation and was told that
faith-based schools and homeschooling families would not be allowed to
teach that homosexual behavior is a sin.

“You can affirm the
family’s ideology in your family life, you just can’t do it as part of
your educational study and instruction,” Donna McColl, the education
minister’s staffer, said.

Days later, after receiving a
substantial number of complaints and after about 500 homeschool
supporters gathered for a rally at the Alberta legislature March 5,
Lukaszuk distanced himself from his spokeswoman’s comments.

“This
government in no way would ever want to interfere in what families
[may] discuss or not discuss in their homes,” Lukaszuk, who was present
at the rally, said. “From a legal perspective … those concerns, even
though real in their hearts and their minds, are not substantiated in
the act.

“There is no intention to ever infringe on their rights.
They do not have to change their homeschooling practices in any way,”
Lukaszuk said. “Whether they’re homeschooling children or not, we as
government would not step into people’s kitchen and tell them what they
can or cannot discuss.”

Paul Faris, president of the Home School
Legal Defense Association in Canada, said the proposed legislation
should be amended to avoid misinterpretations such as McColl’s by other
government officials.

“Quite frankly, I don’t care what the
government’s intentions are,” Faris said, according to LifeSiteNews. “I
want to know what the law says because ultimately it’s what’s written in
the law that’s going to matter.

“Even if this government does
have good intentions, if a different government gets in with nefarious
intentions, they’ve got that law sitting there waiting for them to use.”

Patty
Marler, a government liaison for the Alberta Home Education
Association, wondered how the government could differentiate between
home education time and family time.

“We educate our children all
the time, and that’s just the way we live. It’s a lifestyle,” Marler
said. “Making that distinction between the times when we’re
homeschooling and when we’re just living is really hard to do.”

The
HSLDA in the United States has called on its members to contact
Alberta’s legislative assembly and ask them not to move the law forward,
Donnelly said.

“People have sort of focused on the
homosexuality aspect of this, but there is certainly much more to it
than that. The biggest issue from my perspective is … there is also a
free speech issue here and a line that the government in Alberta is
crossing where they are attempting to in a sense seize the parents and
make them government employees,” Donnelly told BP.

“They’re …
essentially saying that parents who teach their children at home are
just state employees teaching their children,” he said. “It’s absurd.
We’re concerned about it, and we want to help the Alberta homeschoolers
to defeat this very bad legislation.”

Donnelly mentioned
California becoming the first state last summer to mandate the teaching
of gay history in public schools, requiring social science classes to
include the “role and contributions” of “lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender Americans.”

“You see increasing attempts across the
country by legislators — Massachusetts too — to impose teaching
requirements on public schools,” Donnelly said. “From there the next
step is private schools and then incorporating homeschools.

“So
it certainly appears to be part of a larger plan. I don’t know that
there’s any kind of conspiracy or they’re connected with one another,
but there certainly seems to be an agenda to try to control what
children learn from the government,” Donnelly said. “That certainly is a
very serious concern. One of the things we pay attention to here is
watching legislatures in all 50 states to make sure they don’t do things
like this.”

Internationally, homeschoolers are not seeing a lot
of positive developments, Donnelly said, though Brazil is in the early
stages of considering legislation to recognize homeschooling.

“Brazil is a place where homeschoolers have had difficulties,” he said.

In
Germany and Sweden in particular, homeschooling families have fled to
other countries as they faced persecution including harassment,
insurmountable fines and separation of families for not sending their
children to government-sanctioned schools.

“I think linking
what’s happened in Germany and Sweden to what’s happening in Alberta is
appropriate. These are examples of governments that are trying to impose
a totalitarian view on society through education by not permitting
viable alternatives to parents through private schools that are truly
independent and by preventing parents from teaching their children at
home,” Donnelly said. “That’s what the actions of those countries
represent.”

Erin Roach – March 15, 2012 – NoOneHasToDieTomorrow

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