The Situation In Germany: More Uncovered
I had trouble closing my dresser drawers this afternoon. I pushed harder on the thick padding of shirts and pants. No movement. It was full – really, really full. I tossed the remaining pieces of clothing from the neatly folded laundry pile back onto my bed.
Now I must interject, it’s not that this dresser [...]
September 1st, 2005 at 6:09 am
Testing…the other design didn’t work…oh well…
September 6th, 2005 at 4:41 am
This must be a strange school he is writing about, at least concerning school sports. Generally, in German schools there are separate dressing rooms for boys and girls. Definitely at all schools I know/have been too.
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! [...]