Posts Tagged ‘ German homeschooling ’

Too bad we can’t Snopes this

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If this article linked to anything substantive, it might be easier to make sense of. As it is, there is nothing linkable other than English-language sites virally spreading the same information. You’d think something would show up in German, but there is nothing as of today. World Net Daily, Medford, Oregon, 22 March 2007,...
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American reaction to plight of Melissa Busekros noticed in Germany

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Spiegel Online, Hamburg, Germany, 13 March 2007, American Christians Protest Over German Homeschooling CaseThe case has been widely reported in Christian and conservative media in the United States, with some commentators comparing the authorities to Nazis. Activists are being encouraged to pray for the girl and petition German Chancellor Angela Merkel, while one Web...
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200 years of compulsory schooling in Bavaria

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The point of posting this article is to underscore how the ‘German laws against homeschooling’ are not a new development. Any discussion of a change in German outlook, especially by people in other countries who don’t have first-hand experience of the attitudes of the people using the system under discussion,must take history into account,...
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Updates on Melissa Busekros

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The initial post on 6 February 2007 about the removal of Melissa Busekros from her home in Erlangen, Germany, after over a year of backing-and-forthing with the local youth authorities, is at: Melissa Busekros. Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit (Education Freedom Network), Child and youth-psychiatric appraisals for the execution of the SGB VIII in accordance with 35...
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Scatty’s take on the German education bureaucracy

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According to her blog, Scatty lives in northern Germany, and homeschools. She has been following the plight of Melissa Amina Busekros, and she parodied the psychiatric report on Melissa by making her own diagnosis of the German educational outlook. Green fields and open horizons, Northern Germany, 17 February 2007, My diagnosis of the German...
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