Troubled Teens Resources

Girls Boarding schools. Alternative Schools. Military schools. Troubled teen boarding schools and charter schools and vouchers and home schooling. Parents in America have choices. While parents may be feeling overwhelmed with their troubled teen or special needs teen’s current acadamic experiences, at least they can explore other programs and schools. There are innumerable options for a parent to consider.

The subject comes up after running ento a blog entry by a home schooling parent about the under reported crack down on homeschooling in Germany. It is worth taking note of.

“Since the late 1990s, scores of these families have been involved in court cases. While there have been a few instances where families have been able to continue to homeschool after or while paying fines, or when the local authorities turn a blind eye, this is by far the exception. In most cases families are fined, in some cases thousands of dollars, or when threatened with the removal of their children by German Youth Welfare authorities, have fled the country. Other families have been (and remain) separated for years–the fathers remaining in Germany to provide for their families and mothers and children living in another country where they are able to safely homeschool. Mothers and fathers have been also imprisoned, had their bank accounts confiscated, their wages garnished, or their businesses ruined by the actions of their local government.
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Although the Court agreed that homeschooling was an exercise of protected parental liberties, it determined that these liberties were overridden by concerns raised by the lower German courts that homeschooling could create a parallel society.

In the United States, such a decision would be tantamount to the Supreme Court ruling that states could outlaw homeschooling.”
(Source)

With public education on a continuing downward spiral, at least Americans have a choice as to how they will educate their children. To loose that ability to choose would be unthinkable.