Severe School Phobia: Child-Psychiatric Opinion re. homeschooled Melissa Busekros

http://www.helmut-boegelein.de/Urteil_Wiesses_ueber_Melissa_auf_Englisch.html ^

[FormerACLUmember]

"Overall, M. appeared very unhappy, as if at a dead end."

Uh, you lying socialist thugs, you just had 15 neo-SS troopers just kidnap this girl and remove her from her family.

[baubau]

See your mail, please.

[Clint Williams]

Stand by me, stand by them.

If you're standing with them, I am NOT standing with you!!!

[Quick or Dead]

All your children are belong to us.

[freekitty]

Get real.

[delacoert]

Yeah well...

the Germans have a long and successful history of providing such final solutions for the good of the father land.

Zig heil and all that.

[cornelis]

It isn't just a German problem, delacoert. We have countless evaluators in this country, too.

[cornelis]

Very real and very dangerous.

[coydog]

To them, any disagreement with their agenda is conveniently labelled as "mental illness".

Not exactly Christian of me, but Hell is not hot enough for these people.

[delacoert]

It isn't just a German problem, delacoert.

Did you intend to be condescending???

The article YOU posted was from a German source about German people.

Yeah, we've heard American home schoolers face some opposition...

...and now I know you have a great big ax to grind.

[cornelis]

Did you intend to be condescending??? Not at all. Just a friendly reminder.

[omnivore]

"Psychopathological findings: At first contact, M. was alert, oriented, calm, somewhat browbeaten. M. presents herself as being affectively noninvolved, her drive and psychomotor movements seemed to be normal, thinking and perception are not greatly disturbed. M. appears incommunicative, appeasing, her willingness to cooperate did not seem genuine. Her mood tended toward depression, the affective ability was markedly reduced. Overall, M. appeared very unhappy, as if at a dead end."

Wow, and I thought it was just me! This is basically an exact description of how I felt EVERY FREAKING DAY in public school up through the eighth grade. (High school was better, praise God.) Welcome to the machine, kid, whoever you are.

[wodinoneeye]

Actually if the German public school teachers were subjected to the same scrutiny you would find alot more children on average at risk there. But since the teachers are government employees they are untouchable and NOT even subject to equivalent scrutiny. There is a socialist agenda to eliminate any/all home schooling.

[rzeznikj at stout]

...not to mention a demented motley gang of sickos, freaks, and absolutely tyrannical whackos.

[metmom]

Psychopathological findings: At first contact, M. was alert, oriented, calm, somewhat browbeaten. M. presents herself as being affectively noninvolved, her drive and psychomotor movements seemed to be normal, thinking and perception are not greatly disturbed. M. appears incommunicative, appeasing, her willingness to cooperate did not seem genuine. Her mood tended toward depression, the affective ability was markedly reduced. Overall, M. appeared very unhappy, as if at a dead end.

Pretty subjective evaluations, there but not unexpected. They see what they want to and will find she's been mentally whatever because of the homeschooling. Who wouldn't seem depressed or unhappy taken from their home and not knowing what's happening to their parents?

[metmom]

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If homeschooling hadn't grown so much before the NEA became aware of it, I could see this being the situation in the US. Fortunately for us, homeschoolers had the numbers to combat attempts to destroy it.

[metmom]

6. GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT: Serious and general social impairment in the area of school adjustment and school related interests, of leisure activities and coping with social situations.

IOW, she hasn't had the usual perverted sexual indoctrination that the other kids have had. If she's only been homeschooled for 2 1/2 years, then the rest of the time was at the government indoctrination centers. In that case, they must have failed miserably for all the years they had her, if 2 1/2 years of homeschooling undid all the damage they did.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Does anyone have a link to a legal defense fund for these poor people? If they can get their daughter back they should emigrate to the U.S. as politically persecuted refugees.

[narses]

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From HSLDA Web site

February 5, 2007

HSLDA--German Homeschooled Child Sentenced to a Child Psychiatry Unit

Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: The situation for homeschoolers in Germany is getting worse each week. Just last Thursday, a 15-year-old homeschooled girl was forcibly removed from her parent's custody by over 15 police officers. The homeschooled girl has been placed in the child psychiatry unit of the Nuremberg clinic.

Homeschooling is not legal in Germany. There are over 40 cases currently in court or being appealed. Christian families are fleeing Germany for safety in nearby countries. The unconscionable treatment of sincere and faithful Christian homeschool families is a sad legacy from Germany's past. Homeschooling was first banned under Adolf Hitler, and that ban is still enforced today.

Many families who have had their children forcibly taken from their home each day and taken to government school have since fled Germany, but there are still some homeschoolers. The latest incident involves 15-year-old Melissa Busekros, the girl sent to the Nuremberg psychiatry unit. What is being done to this sensitive girl--just to set an example of enforcing the compulsory schooling at all costs--is reprehensible and causing trauma to unassuming and lovable Melissa.

In the summer of 2005, she was told she would have to repeat the seventh grade at the government school because she was failing math and Latin. She had good grades in the rest of her classes, so her parents tutored her at home for those two subjects. When the school officials found out they were angry and then expelled Melissa, so the family began to homeschool full time.

However, the Youth Welfare office then took the family to court because they were homeschooling. Then, on Tuesday, January 30, 2007, social workers and police officers came to the Busekros home and forcibly took Melissa to the child psychiatric unit where she was questioned for four hours before she was returned home. Then two days later, 15 police officers and social workers came to the Busekros home and took Melissa away from her parents by force and placed her in the child psychiatric unit.

According to Melissa's father, Hubert Busekros, this treatment was justified by the psychiatrist's finding two days previously that Melissa was supposedly developmentally delayed by one year and that she suffered from school phobia.

Nevertheless, one organization concerned with education expressed outrage at the treatment of Melissa Busekros. "The Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit [the Network for Freedom of Education] condemns this inconsiderate and totally incommensurate behavior on the part of the officials involved and demands that they give Melissa her freedom and return her to her family immediately," the group was quoted in an article on its website. To view the site, as well as more information and a photograph of the Busekros family, go to http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=3697 .

ACTION

We ask you to take a moment and do two things: First, call or email the German Embassy and give them this message: "We are shocked to hear of the Busekros' homeschooled daughter Melissa being removed from the custody of her parents and being placed in a child psychiatric unit. This is an outrage that hearkens back to the Nazi era. We cannot believe a free nation would put a homeschooled child in a psychiatric ward for 'school phobia.' The attack on the homeschool families throughout Germany must stop."

The German Embassy can be contacted at:

Dr. Klaus Scharioth
Ambassador
German Embassy
4645 Reservoir Road NW
Washington, DC, 20007-1998
(202) 298-4000

The embassy can be emailed from its website:
http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=3696 .

Second, pray for the German situation. Only God can change the situation for homeschoolers in Germany. Attempts by German homeschoolers to organize or to change the laws through court continue to be lost, but with God all things are possible. We ask that you cry out for the German homeschool families.

BACKGROUND

German parents have been fighting for the right to homeschool for the last seven or more years. However, all efforts have failed in the face of the stubborn German government and their official response that they cannot "allow a counterculture to exist."

We believe the hope for Germany will be via the international pressure bearing down so that they abandon their witch-hunt after homeschoolers and their terrible treatment of these innocent families.

Homeschoolers remaining in Germany are hoping to legalize homeschooling in one state and thereby make a safe-haven for homeschoolers. However, the German homeschoolers are so few and the attacks so intense that it is hard to make any progress in this area.

If you wish to assist the Germans in their struggle for homeschool freedom, or with many other struggling countries, you can donate to HSLDA's international fund via the Home School Foundation at http://www.homeschoolfoundation.org/ .

Your donation will be used to meet the homeschooling needs in Germany. After meeting the known homeschooling needs in this country, if there are remaining funds, this money will be transferred to the Foundation's International Fund to meet homeschooling needs in other countries.

Thank you for standing with these families and taking a moment to assist them.

Sincerely,

Christopher J. Klicka HSLDA Senior Counsel Director of State and International Relations