Matthias Wolf has spear-headed a petition to the German government requesting home-schooling/home education to be allowed and without penalty in Germany.
It runs until the 16th of June and must get 50,000 signatures to take it to the next level and have the powers that be take notice. At present it has 129 signatories.
That's just over 6 weeks.
Can we do it? Yes, we can!
Here's what it says...
| Original German | Offered English translation |
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Der Deutsche Bundestag möge beschließen ...das häusliche Lernen bzw. den Hausunterricht zu erlauben und straffrei zu stellen. Begründung Hausunterricht oder Homeschooling wird in allen EU Ländern und englisch sprachigen Ländern bereits schon länger mit großem Erfolg praktiziert und erweist sich immer mehr als der Bildungsweg der Zukunft. In Deutschland ist es eine noch weitgehend unbekannte und mit zahlreichen Vorurteilen behaftete Form des Lernens. Die unzureichende Vermittlung von ethischen und moralischen Grundwerten an öffentlichen Schulen, Gewalt und Mobbing, negative Sozialisation der Kinder, fehlende Lernfreude, sinkendes Bildungsniveau, die Unfähigkeit vieler Schulen Kinder individuell zu fördern und ihrem persönlichen Begabungsprofil zu bilden, haben dazu geführt, dass immer mehr Eltern sich Alternativen im bestehenden Bildungssystem wünschen. Bis dato existiert die Schulpflicht in Deutschland statt einer sinnvolleren Lernpflicht. Schule wird somit in Deutschland direktiv verordnet. Eltern, die ihre Kinder selbst unterrichten wollen, müssen mit staatlichen Strafmaßnahmen wie Bußgeldern rechnen und werden somit unnötig kriminalisiert. Es sollte mündigen Bürgern frei gestellt sein wo sie ihren Kindern Bildung zukommen lassen. Alle staatlichen Sanktionsmaßnahmen gegen Eltern, die ihre Kinder selbst unterrichten, sollten aufgehoben werden.
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The German government should decide ... to allow home-based learning also known as home-schooling without punishment. Grounds Home schooling has already been practised for quite some time in all the European Union and English-speaking countries with great success and is proving more and more to be the education of the future. In Germany it is still largely unknown and is a form of learning carrying extreme consequences of jail (?). The lack of promotion of ethical and moral values in public schools, violence and bullying, negative socialization of children, lack of joy of learning and decreasing educational standards, the inability of many schools to extend children individually and to form their own skill set, have led to more and more parents to wish for alternatives to the existing education system. To date, compulsory school attendance has existed in Germany instead of a sensible compulsory education. School in Germany is mandated by law. Parents who want to teach their children themselves, face state sanctions such as penalty fines, and are therefore unnecessarily criminalized. Responsible citizens should be free to to choose where their children receive an education (from). All state-sanctioned penalties against parents who teach their children themselves, should be repealed. |
It does require registration, which proves a barrier to entry for many a person, let alone in a foreign language!
So let me simplify that with these translations.
Petition mitzeichnen = Sign the petition
Warning
You must log in or register before you sign this petition.
Registrieren = Register
That takes you to this page...
Here is the link to the petition on the government's ePetition website.
Please sign, and pass this post onto friends, family, homeschoolers, media, and anyone who is concerned about fundamental human rights.
As the Romeike's, the Erz family are also from Baden Württemberg. Irene though was born in Canada; and this family mean to remain in Germany and stand up for their right to choose the most appropriate method of education for their own children.
Click on the screenshot to take you to the full article on the BBC News website.
Here is a more balanced article, than in German media, about the Romeike family, their homeschooling in Germany, and their asylum in the United States.
(Click the image to link you through to the original article).
They were raided and had parental rights taken away last year, and this year they were driving the A3 and got police cordoned.
Stefan has an article here about what happened on Sunday (28th February). (In German for now).
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