[Sisku Hanne]

Once again, you are missing the point. First of all, indoctrination can happen ANYWHERE. Indoctrination is the most likely in religious madrasses, where hardcore muslims already send their children. They usually do not home school because of the role women have in their society. Men teach the boys, and women are often denied an education. Therefore, any home schooling laws have a minimal effect on them.
Now for the sake of argument, there may be a handful of families who do homeschool, and whatever they teach within the walls of their home, as repugnant as I may personally find it, is their own business. FREEDOM FOR ALL is not a perfectly neat and tidy business, but it is something preferable to government indoctrination.

Conservative Americans believe people should have the freedom of choice. We also see PLENTY of socialist indoctrination in our public schools that goes against our moral and family values. Your argument that "because it is in public it cannot happen" falls flat. The schools set up governing bodies called school boards, and between the boards making decisions, the teachers unions wielding power, and individual teachers spreading propaganda in their classrooms, socialist indoctrination is a daily business. I was a public school teacher, and I saw it every single day. That is why 2 million or more American children are now home-schooled and the number is rising all the time.

[Rummenigge]

Your posting is appealing because you're not saying that homeschooling is a perfect thing but may backfire in some cases.

I understand that you put the freedom of the individual on top priotrity and you want to assure that you have as less state as possible.

I know about religious madrasses and I would see a possibility of homeschooling as a weak point in legislation to put children there INSTEAD of sending them to school.

My argumentation might fall flat in america and I honour your experience.

But we are talking about germany - and here teachers are officers that stand under an oath inding them to our constitution.

Every school book is examined by a committe consisting of teachers, representants from churches, family organisations and other groups before it is allowed to be used in schools.
The access to the job of a teacher is only graned if you are able to proove that you are not an extremist.
As an example extreme left wingers that tried to get employed in german schools during the 60s and 70s were excluded from office.

Homeschooling as opposed to the german teaching officer does not stand under control of the public - therefore indoctrination is certainly a lot easier.

You wouldn't want your children to eat something that has not been controlled by an organisation that stands in the bright light of the public - why would anybody want to have them taugth at home ?

Homeschooling is only appropriate in rural areas - or if the offered public education would just not be good enough as a base.

We can exclude both for germany. (Until today)