PJC Journal – Original

This government’s
interference and meddling in the education of our children, with plans to yet
again ‘reform’ our schools system, to force feed propaganda to our children by
teaching Gordon Brown’s version of ‘Britishness’ and Al Gore’s film on Climate
Change, the worst is yet to come.

Home Education,
followed by Faith based schools are to be strictured by the EU.   

The European Court of Human Rights, 
the Strasburg-based
court, whose verdicts apply in the entire European Union, ruled that the right
to education “by its very nature calls for regulation by the State.”

It upheld the
finding of German courts: “Schools
represent society, and it is in the children’s interest to become part of that
society. The parents’ right to educate does not go so far as to deprive
their children of that experience.” 

The law that was
upheld? Hitler’s 1938 schooling bill.

The case arose
following the arrest of the father, and the confinement of a young girl because
she was home educated.  

Bearing in mind
that Germany currently holds the EU presidency, and that our own
government is in the process of ‘updating’ the Mental Health Act’ the following
is a very disturbing report.

Earlier this
month, a German teenager was forcibly taken from her parents and imprisoned in
a psychiatric ward. Her crime? She is being home-schooled. 

On 1 Feb.2007, 15
German police officers forced their way into the home of the Busekros family in
the Bavarian town of Erlangen. They hauled off 16-year-old Melissa, the
eldest of the six Busekros children, to a psychiatric ward in nearby Nuremberg. Last week, a court affirmed that Melissa
has to remain in the Child Psychiatry Unit because she is suffering from
“school phobia.”  Source.

Home-schooling has been illegal in Germany since Adolf
Hitler outlawed it in 1938
and ordered all children to be sent to
state schools. The home-schooling community in Germany is tiny.  

As Hitler knew,
Germans tend to obey orders unquestioningly. Only some 500 children are being home-schooled in a country of 80 million.
Home-schooling families are prosecuted without mercy.

Last March, a
judge in Hamburg sentenced a home-schooling father of six to a week in prison and a fine of $2,000.
Last September, a Paderborn mother of 12 was locked up in jail for
two weeks. The family belongs to a group of seven ethnic German families who
immigrated to Paderborn from the former Soviet Union. 

They fled because the former Soviets persecuted them because they were
Baptists.

An initiative of the Paderborn Baptists to establish their own private
school was rejected by the German authorities. A court ruled that the Baptists showed “a stubborn contempt both for the state’s educational
duty as well as the right of their children to develop their personalities by
attending school.” 

All German
political parties, including the Christian Democrats of Chancellor Angela
Merkel, are opposed to home-schooling. They say that “the obligation to attend
school is a civil obligation, that cannot be tampered with.”

In Germany, schools
have become vehicles of indoctrination, where children are brought up to unquestioningly accept the authority of the
state in all areas of life. It is no coincidence that people who have escaped Soviet indoctrination
discern what the government is doing in the schools and are sufficiently
concerned to want to protect their children from it. 

What is worrying is that most “free-born” Germans accept this assault on
their freedom as normal and eye parents who opt out of the state system with
suspicion.

It is disquieting that Europeans have not learned the lessons from
their dictatorial past, upholding
Nazi laws and sending dissidents, including children, to psychiatric wards, as
the Soviets used to do.

But it is even
more disturbing that they are now going to impose the same rules on Britain.

Not to be left out of the rush to exert total control over everyone
everywhere, Blair's government is preparing a ‘consultation’ on Home
Schooling, and amendments to the law.

 

 

This government’s
interference and meddling in the education of our children, with plans to yet
again ‘reform’ our schools system, to force feed propaganda to our children by
teaching Gordon Brown’s version of ‘Britishness’ and Al Gore’s film on Climate
Change, the worst is yet to come.

Home Education,
followed by Faith based schools are to be strictured by the EU.   

The European Court of Human Rights, 
the Strasburg-based
court, whose verdicts apply in the entire European Union, ruled that the right
to education “by its very nature calls for regulation by the State.”

It upheld the
finding of German courts: “Schools
represent society, and it is in the children’s interest to become part of that
society. The parents’ right to educate does not go so far as to deprive
their children of that experience.” 

The law that was
upheld? Hitler’s 1938 schooling bill.

The case arose
following the arrest of the father, and the confinement of a young girl because
she was home educated.  

Bearing in mind
that Germany currently holds the EU presidency, and that our own
government is in the process of ‘updating’ the Mental Health Act’ the following
is a very disturbing report.

Earlier this
month, a German teenager was forcibly taken from her parents and imprisoned in
a psychiatric ward. Her crime? She is being home-schooled. 

On 1 Feb.2007, 15
German police officers forced their way into the home of the Busekros family in
the Bavarian town of Erlangen. They hauled off 16-year-old Melissa, the
eldest of the six Busekros children, to a psychiatric ward in nearby Nuremberg. Last week, a court affirmed that Melissa
has to remain in the Child Psychiatry Unit because she is suffering from
“school phobia.”  Source.

Home-schooling has been illegal in Germany since Adolf
Hitler outlawed it in 1938
and ordered all children to be sent to
state schools. The home-schooling community in Germany is tiny.  

As Hitler knew,
Germans tend to obey orders unquestioningly. Only some 500 children are being home-schooled in a country of 80 million.
Home-schooling families are prosecuted without mercy.

Last March, a
judge in Hamburg sentenced a home-schooling father of six to a week in prison and a fine of $2,000.
Last September, a Paderborn mother of 12 was locked up in jail for
two weeks. The family belongs to a group of seven ethnic German families who
immigrated to Paderborn from the former Soviet Union. 

They fled because the former Soviets persecuted them because they were
Baptists.

An initiative of the Paderborn Baptists to establish their own private
school was rejected by the German authorities. A court ruled that the Baptists showed “a stubborn contempt both for the state’s educational
duty as well as the right of their children to develop their personalities by
attending school.” 

All German
political parties, including the Christian Democrats of Chancellor Angela
Merkel, are opposed to home-schooling. They say that “the obligation to attend
school is a civil obligation, that cannot be tampered with.”

In Germany, schools
have become vehicles of indoctrination, where children are brought up to unquestioningly accept the authority of the
state in all areas of life. It is no coincidence that people who have escaped Soviet indoctrination
discern what the government is doing in the schools and are sufficiently
concerned to want to protect their children from it. 

What is worrying is that most “free-born” Germans accept this assault on
their freedom as normal and eye parents who opt out of the state system with
suspicion.

It is disquieting that Europeans have not learned the lessons from
their dictatorial past, upholding
Nazi laws and sending dissidents, including children, to psychiatric wards, as
the Soviets used to do.

But it is even
more disturbing that they are now going to impose the same rules on Britain.

Not to be left out of the rush to exert total control over everyone
everywhere, Blair's government is preparing a ‘consultation’ on Home
Schooling, and amendments to the law.

 

 

As
reported in the Register
today, IT firms are ripping off the government by charging more than twice the
market rate for staff, according to a recruitment company. 

ReThink Recruitment
said in a statement that project managers, business managers, technical architects, software
consultants, programme managers and IT directors were all hired out by
recruitment firms at a charge of between £600 and £650 a day. They would then
be posted on government contracts by the big consultant groups, i.e. EDS, Accenture, PWC, etc between £1,200 and £2,000 a day.

Managing
director Jon Butterfield said the public sector found it harder to control its
staffing costs when it outsourced its project management to external
consultants. 

The
supply chain for key IT project skills was several tiers high, he said, and the
link at every level was taking a cut. “The final rate the outsourcing
provider bills the client is often several times the original price of the
skill at the bottom of the chain.”

What
ReThink didn’t say was that the average rate for the roles listed above to the
contractor were only £300 to £500 per day. 

Recruitment
consultants consistently tell candidates that working for public sector clients
is at the bottom end of the market and rates are carefully capped.

Government
agencies would be better able to control their costs if they were to recruit
direct with contractors rather than via agencies, or to allow the big
consultancies to set the rate by which government is charged.  

If
they were to recruit direct using the popular electronic recruitment services such as Jobsite, they would reduce their staffing costs by
over 60 percent, and their choice of candidates would be much higher, with more
relevant skill sets available to them. This in turn means that as staffing
costs are the biggest part of the PFI schemes, they could run
these projects themselves, at a fraction of the overall cost, rather than
wasting billions of taxpayer money on the PFI schemes.

They
would be able to recruit experienced contractors, providing true value for
money, rather than the plethora of graduates
preferred by the big consultancy groups, as I wrote about in December06.

Also of concern is the distinct lack of IT knowledge within government, which if properly staffed with good skill sets would stop many of the abuses by consultancy groups setting  IT  capability and performance expectations way too high. 

The
downside to government of course is that Gordon Brown would not be able to hide
the costs by keeping the PFI schemes off the books, and run up debts to IT
companies that will now take generations to pay off. 

Perhaps the Smith Institute could advise Gordon Brown on how to do this more cost effectively to the advantage of the taxpayer.