Global Special-ed

One of President Elect Barack Obama's new policies likely to be enacted quickly upon his assuming office would be the Global Poverty Act of 2007. This act will do some pretty dangerous things, particularly for the rights of Homeschoolers. This act would cause the US to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as an international Treaty. The "rights of the child", that sounds harmless enough, right? I mean aren't we all for helping the children? NO! Not like this. This act basically subjugates the welfare of all children to the supreme supervision of the (Global) State.

The globalist, due to a misinterpretation of Article VI of the US Constitution, mistakenly believe that treaties entered into by the United States make that treaty the supreme law of the land, where state courts and legislatures would have no power to overturn or limit the provisions of the treaty. There is precedence via supreme court rulings that dispute this belief, however this is part of the globalists' strategy and argument in order to progress their agenda of one global government and monetary system.

The alarming parts of The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child for a homeschooling family are found mainly in articles 28 and 29:

Article 28
1. States Parties recognize the right of the child to education, and with a view to achieving this right progressively and on the basis of equal opportunity, they shall, in particular:

(a) Make primary education compulsory and available free to all;
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(e) Take measures to encourage regular attendance at schools and the reduction of drop-out rates.

Article 29:
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2. No part of the present article or article 28 shall be construed so as to interfere with the liberty of individuals and bodies to establish and direct educational institutions, subject always to the observance of the principle set forth in paragraph 1 of the present article and to the requirements that the education given in such institutions shall conform to such minimum standards as may be laid down by the State.

This treaty, if adopted, would pretty much eliminates our right to home school by making primary education compulsory, enforcing attendance, and then making any alternative educational institution "conform to such minimum standards as may be laid down by the State".

The presumption is that the state can effectively create and establish even minimum standards for eduction. It can't. It doesn't work here, and it definitely won't work on a global scale. This is the opposite of liberty, this is the handing over of liberty to an elite group of distant experts so they can decide (for the whole world) what is the right and wrong way to raise and educate your child. The Federal mandates on our local schools are often ridiculous enough, and the people who created those mandates are at least in a similar culture as you are. Can you imagine the educational mandates passed down by a GLOBAL department of education? This is basically what this treaty creates (see article 43 of the UN text).

The preamble of the UN text states that they are "Taking due account of the importance of the traditions and cultural values of each people for the protection and harmonious development of the child".

I wonder if they'll take into account my tradition and cultural value says that the education of my children is one of the primary responsibilities given to MY WIFE and ME by GOD. Probably not. Why? Because they don't recognise the authority from whence I derive the right. And if they don't recognize that, then I can also assume they don't assign the same value to me that I assign to myself and to my family. My value is derived from the fact that an infinite God of infinite value was willing to lay down His life as a ransom for my life. However, I will only be as valuable to the globalist as I can be compliant to their dictates. My value to them is limited to the amount of my time I spend, willingly or not, laboring for the advancement of their self-serving purposes.