Sounds like teachers' unions in Germany are even stronger than ours are here.
That's just what I thought. They'd love to have forced public education.
It's a matter of priorities. The German law puts the right of the children to be protected from childwork, homeschooling etc. higher then the right of the parents to decide what special kind of education their children might get.
Looking at the high number of muslim and other immigrants I can only hope we keep this law - otherwise we loose young muslims to the imam schools.
Just remember after the Nazis fell, no judges were replaced, except very few.
Actually, it's kind of interesting because we are homeschooling my youngest; when my wife and I first looked into homeschool a few years ago the overall mood was somewhat hostile to the idea. Now the feeling seems to be that the schools are happy to outsource the work.
They still get my tax money and there is one less child using the county's resources in the system. That would probably change if I were to get a tax-cut or voucher.