Posts Tagged ‘ political asylum ’

Visit with the Romeike Family

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Alexandra Frean, visits the Romeike family in Morristown, TN and writes about it in The Times - Exiled: the parents who dared to teach at home It was just after 7am in a chilly October day in 2006 when the police came knocking. Uwe and Hannalore Romeike and their three children remained quiet, scarcely...
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Romeike Family Asylum Ctd.

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In a piece pre-dated for Monday, March 8th, Time reports on the Romeike Asylum case again: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Homeschool. So why did he seek asylum in the U.S. rather than relocate to nearby Austria or another European country that allows homeschooling? Romeike’s wife Hannelore tells...
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Romeike family asylum

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News of the Romeike family’s asylum ruling is making the rounds. This is the first piece on the Romeike decision that I found which has done independent reporting and provides some context to this situation in Germany. US judge grants German homeschooling family asylum. “Homeschoolers are a particular social group that the German government...
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