German Court Takes Custody of 5 Homeschoolers

German Court Takes Custody of 5 Homeschoolers

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A court in eastern Germany has taken custody of five children away from their homeschooling parents, but has not yet removed the children from the home. The parents, Bert and Kathrin Brause of Zittau, lost custody of their children, Rosine, Jotham, Kurt-Simon, Lovis and Ernst, to the local youth welfare office.

The parents can only regain custody by placing their children in public school, and the children may be physically removed by the state at any time.

According to court documents translated by the International Human Rights Group, the parents were also ordered to pay all court costs, estimated at almost $4000. The judge’s order was based solely on the parents’ unwillingness to send their children to the public school, in violation of Germany’s mandatory school attendance law.

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[edit on 3/25/2007 by shots]

Can you believe this; the judge ruled this way despite the fact he admitted they were well-educated and the parents were more then qualified to educate them on their own.

What is this remnants of the third Reich?

And here I thought modern day Germans were more progressive then that :shk:




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