"But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social. And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate...? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention."
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
'Communist Manifesto', 1848
What will happen next is that the children of the small homeschooling community will be the first target of state-police squads in the tracking and retention of children into the system.
Gypsy families who do not value education will continue to not value education. In order to report activity, officials will go to search out those who are exemplary citizens, who care about their children and have opted for another form of education.
Not surprisingly the true spirit behind Resolution 373 of July 5, 2017, is the spirit of the arrogant, unlimited, unaccountable bureaucracy. This government bureaucracy exists for itself and there is nothing sacred, inviolable and human which it does not want to seize and subdue - including the Bulgarian family and the guaranteed freedom of private and family life.
Even the Roma case poses the same question regarding Resolution 373. Why, if the culture of an ethnic group does not have an interest in formal education, should the people of that ethnicity be forced to be educated? If what is good and right is being shoved down by force and threats of persecution and sanctions does it continue to be a genuine good and right? If we have an obligation to be educated only in the state model, why not change the Constitution to make it clear that in Bulgaria there is no freedom of education and that state-imposed education is an obligation? Then the law will clearly show that the ideology of public education is totalitarian, fascist and communist. Thus there will be no confusion and no sentimental expectations that a family can escape the iron-clad TRACKING AND RETENTION OF THE SYSTEM.
But the Bulgarian model "not to catch a cold and not get cheated" [an equivalent to "have the cake and eat it, too"] is visible in this public-legislative hypocrisy of constitutional and governmental proportion. We have a democracy, yet we have tyranny.
In a case where I defended a parent and his child, in which the parent had decided to educate the student at home because of violence in the compulsory public school, the government official of the Regional Inspectorate of Education literally screamed in response to the father's clearly reasoned argument as to why he would educate his son at home and away from their system:
"But he is our child!"
In conclusion, we will ask the most important question in this situation. Will parents react against this administrative arbitrariness of the unlimited power of the Council of Ministers and their power structures? Will democratically-minded people and organizations react to the next extreme, absurd administrative arbitrariness of the executive branch of the government?
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