Posted on 01/07/2014 8:01:50 PM PST by truthfinder9
A judge has issued a stunning verdict in a homeschooling case in Germany, ordering that the parents cannot have custody of their children because the family might move to another country and homeschool, posing a “concrete endangerment” to the children.
Dirk and Petra Wunderlich’s case made international headlines in August when 20 armed police arrived with a battering ram and forcibly took their four children from their home in Darmstadt, Germany, and enrolled them in public school.
As WND reported at the time, the children, ages 7 to 14, were taken into police custody. They were allowed to return home three weeks later when their father and mother, given no choice by the federal bureaucracy in Germany, agreed to allow their kids to attend public schools despite their objection to the social and religious instruction there.
According to the Home School Legal Defense Association, an international organization advocating for homeschool rights, the ruling from Family Court Judge Marcus Malkmus rejected emphatically the parents’ request to regain custody.
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Common Core, anyone??
Ouch; yet funny.
My wife and kid are moving out to Alberta to my town in June (she’s still in military but releasing). I’ve already got a good Christian school picked out and the pricing isn’t bad.
I can’t homeschool, but that’s the next best thing in my opinion.
This totalitarianism is utterly ridiculous
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