Interesting Facts

Homeschooling is legal in the UK, but there is no register for home-schooled children. To the best of my knowledge, the following countries have banned homeschooling:- Albania Andorra    Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus    Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria    Croatia Cuba Cyprus El Salvador Georgia Germany Greece Greenland Guatemala Liechtenstein    Lithuania    Macedonia    Malta    Moldova    Montenegro    Netherlands    Serbia Sierra Leone Sweden Trinidad and Tobago Turkey

According to researchers at Bristol University in the UK, ants are ‘better than humans’ when it comes to choosing a new home. (The ants were given a choice between two nests, one of which was superior to the other in its construction. The scientists noted that the ants chose the superior nest even though it was nine times further away than the alternative. It's all very clever, but what the scientists failed to figure in is the ants were never presented with a mortgage to pay at the end of the month.)

An evangelical Christian family with five children were granted asylum in Tennessee this week after a judge ruled that their fundamental human rights were being violated back home. (What makes this interesting is that "back home" was in Germany. The reason that the Romeike family applied for asylum is that they were unable to homeschool their children, as school attendance in Germany is mandatory. A US immigration judge said that Germany was violating their basic human rights. I'd like to know how the children feel.)