German family claim asylum in US over home schooling – Telegraph

It’s hard to believe that when I was a child, in the early 1980s, it was still illegal in much of America to home school your children.  Apparently, it still is in Germany, and one couple is seeking refugee status:

Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their five children, aged from three to 11, will appeal to a court on Thursday in Tennessee, where they fled after attempts by German police three years ago to force the family to obey the country’s laws which make school attendance compulsory.

When the Romeikes refused to comply with repeated orders to comply with the law, police came to their home and took the children, crying and upset, to school.

German family claim asylum in US over home schooling – Telegraph.

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