Posted by
Temlakos on Saturday, February 10, 2007 11:36:04 AM
If you're a student in Germany, that can happen--and has happened. And if we don't watch out, we shall see it happening in this country.
Happily, the German educational authorities might have overplayed their hand--or more likely gotten too far ahead of their time. The case of a
17-year-old girl hauled off and thrown into a psych ward merely because she was taught at home, has now
attracted international attention, much of it highly unfavorable to the German position. That the law under which this involuntary commitment took place is a Nazi-era law might have more than a little to do with the international outrage this case has now drawn.