Germany: Far From Free

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Posted on 04 August 2005 by Tim

Germany. A free country?

It sure doesn’t seem like it after what we’ve been seeing with court cases of children being taken from their parents because they’re homeschooled in Germany. It resembles China, and the persecution of Christians there. It’s like World War Two…taking people who are not “in line” with the State’s teachings from their homes.

Don’t I remember Hitler being a part of that?

“We have several families that we know of who are in hiding,” says Richard and Ingrid Guenther, German Homeschool leaders, “Surely there are many more by now. It is becoming clear how the Jews must have felt under Hitler. Two families have been separated for more than a year now. The fathers live in one state of Germany where they have their home and the mothers and children hide out in another state with family and friends. They see each other only on weekends. They hope to be reunited one day in their homes when homeschooling is legalized. As for now, both parents have lost custody of their children during school hours. That means that they are subject to a guardian ordered by the government who has the duty to bring them to school — even by police.”

Theresa Moss of Virtue Magazine summed things up well:

“Who cares if the schools are teaching sexual immorality, homosexuality, and evolution? Who cares if they are showing pornography to young German students in their language courses? After all, the school has authority to determine what is against the conscience of the parents! Yeah right. Despite the difficulties, numerous German parents strive to homeschool. It has not been easy. Many German homeschooling families are being forced to flee Germany to another country or stay in hiding to continue to homeschool. Some parents have lost custody of their children to German judges, meaning that at any time the court-appointed guardians can take the children to school by force, even by police.”

It’s happening, as you saw by my last post.

If you’d like to help financially go here.

Also, you can contact the German Embassy.

Wolfgang Ischinger
Ambassador
German Embassy
4645 Reservoir Road NW
Washington, DC, 20007-1998
(202) 298-4000

The embassy can be e-mailed from its website: http://www.globescope.biz/germany/reg/index.cfm

More coming soon.

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Agent Tim Online :: Culture And Theology--Hand In Hand Says:
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:09 pm
[...] In the past, I have covered the German Homeschool crisis (see here, here, here, here, here, and here.) I ran across an article by Richard Guenther that spoke about not only homeschoolers, but other minorities who are being persecuted for going against school policies. Today, two mothers were taken to prison in the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. They were not homeschoolers but were charged with keeping their children from fulfilling the mandatory school attendance laws of their state. Their crime? They refused to allow their children to participate in a very, very ungodly school theater piece. First they received fines. When they refused to pay the fines they were taken to jail. One mother’s husband is in the hospital for a very serious lung operation. He like the other father will face jail when his wife finishes her punishment in prison. When she was brought to the police station the officer in charge told her to go home and not tell anybody. Why? Because she was brought to prison with her baby. She still nurses her baby. The other mother remains in jail. She has 12 children. The last step is to take the children away! [...]