As for the concerns over homeschoolers’ rights being jeopardized, the treaty wouldn’t allow for more privacy invasion than Child Protective Services already has. All Child Protective Services requires to investigate is a concerned phone call. Then an actual investigation is launched, in which hard evidence of abuse is required for any action to take place. How is the treaty any different from this? In both cases both the interests of the parents and the child are taken into account.

http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={B47062D1-5377-40F9-9A26-0CFFD0DD66CC}&DE=

Whether we lean right or left and whether our wing is in power or out, it’s not so simple for any person or group such as homeshcooling, to reflexively believe police are always right and students are always wrong, or vice versa.

Thus, despite all efforts at regulation, the market has repeatedly decided in favor of the N-bomb. There simply isn’t any other tableau, in history or fiction, that offers the same variety of evil and oppressive examples as the Third Reich. Why compare some propaganda to 1984 and some slaughter to Srebrenica when you can double down and link both of them to Nazism?

It’s all part of our cultural memory, along with the “Never again” I was taught in school as I was forced to watch a documentary of walking skeletons, mass graves, and ghostly, dead eyes.

As an actual argument, it lacks…well…an argument. As a cultural point, a horror we all shared even though it happened before most of us were born, it is rather interesting.

At least to me.

After all, we can’t point to ourselves. Our Liberty Cabbage and Liberty Steaks. Parading German-born Americans about to shame them. Dousing those who objected to purchasing liberty bonds with paint, and stealing the Mennonites cars and using the money to buy liberty bonds since they refused. Lynching a German family. Stopping the German language newspapers and German language schools.

Of course, that was WWI…before the Nazis and before any clear moral “right” on either side of the “War to End All Wars.”

Or our treatment of Native Americans. I can see certain correlations between this and the forced removal of children from their families and culture in order to “civilize” them. Or even in our treatment of Catholic immigrants.

Some of these events in our own history actually seem to have a much stronger correlation to home education concerns. But perhaps it is “safer” to look abroad and to the extreme rather than deal with the very real fact that America, too, is not above interfering in the family to force the will of the majority.