Educating Germany

Inge Bruer, resident in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and a home-schooling dad, has launched a petition to his Presidential Minister Hannelore Kraft to ask for home education to be recognised etc

For more information and to add your name to the petition please visit Change.org

The Dudek brothers recently undertook a marathon cycling tour from Germany, through Switzerland (over the Alps) and down to the Mediterranean Sea.

This is their video account in German:

Their English version is here:

Well done guys!  We look forward to seeing what else you get up to and muse upon, on your blog.

This review, by Milton Gaither, popped up on my radar today and I thought that it serves as a quick refresher of the issues of home education in Europe and Germany, especially for those new to understanding the situation.  I believe he also raises a valid point questioning whether Islam is playing into the added reticence of authorities towards legalising home education in Germany today.

Here is a trailer to a film being made by Andreas Holzhauer, Woodcutter Film Studios, about home education in Germany.  It is in German with English sub-titles.