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We have created this special page to keep Home Service members and others up to date with the situation facing Christian families in Germany who choose to educate their children outside school.
25th October 2006 The Network for Freedom in Education today reported that German police had physically forced crying home educated children into a police car to take them to school. Using laws introduced during the Nazi regime, German authorities used heavy handed methods despite German authorities saying in 2002 that forcible methods were not in the long term interests of the children. Find out more...
21st December 2006
In what appears to be a deliberately provocative statement, a German Ministerial Director has invoked laws originally passed in the days of the National Socialist Workers Party to declare home education illegal in Germany. In even more sinister tones, referring to the forced escort of one family's children to school, the Minister stated, "In order to avoid this in future, the education authority is in conversation with the affected family in order to look for possibilities to bring the religious convictions of the family into line with the unalterable school attendance requirement," Read more HERE. Click HERE to read the original letter in translation.
23rd December 2006
For parents who wish to teach their own children in the Judeo-Christian tradition, Germany today is not much better than it was under Nazi party control in the 1930s and 1940s, according to a man who lives there and is pleading for international help for his country. Click HERE to read more.
3rd February 2007
German authorities have taken their fight against home education to another level. Melissa Busekros was removed from her home by two dozen government officials and uniformed police officers in front of her shocked parents. Home educated student, Melissa was then taken and detained at a child psychiatric unit, because she achieved below par results in maths and Latin exams. After a four hour assessment, without her parents present, Melissa was allowed to go home, only to be detained again two days later (without the right to see her parents), because she had been diagnosed as school-phobic in the previous assessment. Click HERE to read more.
23rd April 2007
Melissa Busekros is home after bravely leaving her foster home in the middle of the night. Click HERE to read more.
27rd April 2007
Whilst Melissa Busekros does not appear to be in imminent danger of being taken away, CBNNews.com report that her situation remains uncertain. Click HERE to read more.
9th May2007
Click HERE to read about CBNNews.com's interview with Melissa Busekros.
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Further links to keep you informed about the developing situation in Germany:
Police crack down on home education in Germany
Home educating mum imprisoned as family flee to Austria
Worldnetdaily article about children being forced to attend school
Please also read the Worldnetdaily article described under our 21st December entry.
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Click HERE to visit an excellent blog that includes thoughtful and helpful comments on the situation in Germany, especially the case of Melissa Busekros.
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