Home Schooling Is Prohibited In Germany

Posted: 3/5/2014  Updated: 1/16/2019

Update Of 1/16/2016

Just read The German Government Forcibly Removed These Children From Their Parents Over Homeschooling (dated 1/14/2019). A comment written by Robert Clarke, lead counsel in the case of Wunderlich v. Germany.

A very regrettable travesty in the annals of European jurisprudence! A week ago, the “European Court of Human Rights ... sided with Germany, reaffirming that Germany’s ban on homeschooling does not violate the family’s rights under international law … The German rationale is to prevent “parallel societies” from emerging. Lawyers representing the state presented this rationale to the European court without any evidence to support it as a theory.

We presented evidence to the contrary, showing that in countries with the longest history with homeschooling and the highest number of homeschoolers, the practice is tested, credible, and continues to grow.” (emphasis added)

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Trigger

I just read “The German Home-School Refugees Can Stay”. It is about a German family (the Romeikes) with many children who applied for asylum in the U.S. because homeschooling is prohibited by law and by the supreme court of Germany. The family is now allowed to permanently stay in the U.S.

Lady Liberty Is Smiling For Once

Given that the Statue of Liberty is inconsolably weeping since it was build, this is refreshing news for her.

Parents Ought To Decide Where And How Their Children Are Educated

In principle, it should be left to the parents to decide where they think their children will receive the best education whether it is private, public, or home schooling.

Any parents who decide to homeschool their children are to be commended for their efforts.

In Germany, the highest court of the land (Bundesverfassungsgericht) has decided against parents of homeschooling in favor of mandatory public schooling. What a miscarriage of justice! What an insult to liberty!