Persecuted German Homeschool Family
Posted on 01. Sep, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Education, Events, Hidden Crimes, Politics, Real History, Shera Crossan
Human rights advocates are calling the case of a German homeschooling family “a critical human rights battle.” On September 22nd, the Schmidt family of southern Bavaria in Germany will face a hearing in which government officials will decide if they may keep custody of one of their sons.
Hans and Petra Schmidt have been teaching their children, Josua, 16, and Aaron, 14, for more than nine years in an attempt to shield them from what they hold to be a hostile moral and heavily secularised environment in German public schools. To date the Schmidts have been forced to pay nearly 13,000 Euros (US $18,300) in home schooling fines and have had a lien placed on their home by the government.
But worse than fines is the threat by the Jugendamt, or Youth Office, to remove one of their children from the home entirely. The family’s younger son, Aaron is still subject to the mandatory school attendance laws.
The Schmidts have been in talks with local authorities in hope of finding a suitable arrangement in which Aaron could continue to be taught at home without forcing the family into bankruptcy by fines. Although the children were tested by the school authorities and found to have extraordinarily high academic abilities and to be socially competent, officials are still threatening to seize the younger boy. It is commonly held by the German authorities that homeschooled children are socially maladjusted.
Germany is undertaking a crackdown on homeschooling families who face crippling fines, the seizure of their children and even prison for continuing to teach their children at home. In 1938, Hitler’s Germany outlawed homeschooling which ban is one of the few bills introduced by the Nazi regime that is still on the books today. More> > > >
According to the German Gov’t:
“The public has a legitimate interest in countering the rise of parallel societies that are based on religion or motivated by different world views and in integrating minorities into the population as a whole.”
Full Article: http://hslda.org/hs/international/Germany/200709190.asp
The German Gov’t has 6 million reasons not to allow homeschooling. Any education that doesn’t include their mandatory propaganda could ultimately lead to “freedom of thought”, a terrible crime. Fines, kidnapping, jail… They will do everything in their power to prevent people from questioning their lies.
@Robert, well said.
Your children will undergo Zionist indoctrination or they will be taken from you, you will be imprisoned and your worldly possessions confiscated.
The issue of whether or not home-schooling is banned in Germany is an interesting one.
If you ask at the Regional Government level they would say that National Legislation prevents it.
If you ask at the National Government level, they would say that each Region can decide for themselves.
The EU says that there ought to be provision for home education, so what is Germany waiting for?
Those interested at the homeschooling situation in Germany and wondering how they can get involved may like to visit Educating Germany.
Gov’t brainwashing centers.. evil
Freedom, priceless