{"id":17402,"date":"2013-09-13T10:27:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T14:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=17402"},"modified":"2013-09-13T10:27:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T14:27:55","slug":"hslda-american-homeschooling-and-the-twelve-tribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2013\/09\/hslda-american-homeschooling-and-the-twelve-tribes.html","title":{"rendered":"HSLDA, American Homeschooling, and the Twelve Tribes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>For anyone interested in the international influence of Christian Right and the Christian homeschool movement, the recent revelations of child abuse in the Twelve Tribes sect, or German policy toward homeschooling, all of which I touched on slightly in an article earlier this week<\/a>, I have a real treat for you. Ryan Stollar has produced a gem of journalism connecting the dots and digging up links and information from the past decade or so. He has titled his piece \u201cHow American Homeschoolers Enabled and Funded German Child Abuse: The Real Story Behind the Religious Right and the Twelve Tribes<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to quote from the beginning here, but the piece is long and rich with detail, and anyone interested should give it a thorough reading.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWithout the assistance of American homeschoolers, these advancements would not have been possible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

~ Homeschool Legal Defense Association, concerning German legal association\u00a0Schulunterricht zu Hause<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Last week, German police raided a monastery and farm belonging to a religious cult in Bavaria. They removed 40 children on allegations of child abuse. While the event was originally portrayed by the cult as well as American right-wing news sources as religious persecution, that portrayal was quickly proven wrong. Video evidence of cruel and systematic abuse of children surfaced.<\/p>\n

Some homeschool advocates originally attempted to chalk this up as another example of \u201cGerman intolerance\u201d of homeschooling. German homeschool advocate J\u00f6rg Gro\u00dfel\u00fcmern, who leads the HSLDA-allied\u00a0Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit<\/a>\u00a0(or\u00a0Network for Freedom in Education), had\u00a0brought the situation to the attention of Michael Farris<\/a>, chairman of\u00a0HSLDA<\/a>, the U.S.-based homeschool lobbying organization.\u00a0Gro\u00dfel\u00fcmern alleged that \u201cthe authorities want to create a fait accompli because school holidays will end next week in Bavaria and their private school is not approved by the state.\u201d Farris responded in turn, \u201cThanks so much for the info and for your leadership and courage.\u201d<\/p>\n

When evidence surfaced of real and horrifice abuse, however, these homeschool advocates immediately distanced themselves from the cult. Gro\u00dfel\u00fcmern backpedaled:\u00a0\u201dI didn\u2019t know what was going on behind the curtain of this sect. They didn\u2019t tell the truth and things must be judged differently now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farris added that,\u00a0\u201cMy sources were wrong,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Which makes sense, since his source was\u00a0Gro\u00dfel\u00fcmern.<\/p>\n

People can, and do, make mistakes. People can have lapses of judgment. But the elephant in the room is how a German homeschool leader like\u00a0Gro\u00dfel\u00fcmern, and an international homeschool advocate like Farris, would not first wait to find out what was \u201cgoing on behind the curtain.\u201d It is slightly unsettling that their gut reactions to allegations of child abuse in\u00a0a group universally recognized as a cult\u00a0<\/em>was to assume the best about cult parents over the well-being of children.\u00a0
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

But more than this, it is entirely disingenuous.<\/p>\n

The cult in Bavaria, otherwise know as the Twelve Tribes, has been actively defended directly and indirectly through the actions of American homeschool advocates \u2014 most notably, by HSLDA itself \u2014 for the last decade. These advocates have organized legions of American homeschoolers and funneled over $100,000 of American money to groups that have directly and unabashedly supported this cult and its \u201crights.\u201d Whether through sheer ignorance, or turning a blind eye, HSLDA and fellow homeschool advocates have encouraged Americans to both enable and fund child abuse in Germany.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For anyone interested in the international influence of Christian Right and the Christian homeschool movement, the recent revelations of child abuse in the Twelve Tribes sect, or German policy toward homeschooling, all of which I touched on slightly in an article earlier this week, I have a real treat for you. Ryan Stollar has produced a gem of journalism connecting the dots and digging up links and information from the past decade or so. 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