Interview: The German Situation
Tim Sweetman is an 19-year-old journalist, blogger, and student who lives near our nation's capital,
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August 11th, 2005 at 6:52 pm
WoW! That is some crazy stuff, I had no idea homeschooling was actualy outlawed in some countries. That is awesome that you got to interview her though. I hope it never gets that way here…….
August 12th, 2005 at 11:58 am
Yeah, we’re praying that it doesn’t come to that. But if our court system rules according to international precedents… it’s not good for us.
August 12th, 2005 at 3:51 pm
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August 12th, 2005 at 8:25 pm
Awesome post, dude. Very interesting.
It’s always uplifting to hear from Christians in other countries (especially Europe!) too.
August 13th, 2005 at 12:07 pm
Hey Tim, Great Interview…
I actually was in Germany for about 10 days and stayed with host-families there. Whenever the subject of school came up, the people were absolutely schocked to find out I was homeschooled(some didn’t even know what it was). During a discution with one particular host-family, they told me: “Homeschoolers are forbidden here……We do not speak of them.”
It was a little scary……
Keep up the great work!
Christina
August 13th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
Boy…that sure is scary…
August 13th, 2005 at 6:15 pm
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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! [...]