Educating Germany
The Gorber family will have their next day in court on July 29th, 2pm in Überlingen (near Lake Constance).
These folks have homeschooled for 10 years and are fighting for the return of the 6 of their 9 children who were taken from them and put in foster homes 6 months ago.
Although the authorities used the smoke screen of the mothers gestational diabetes and state of mind as the excuse for removing the children along with perhaps the husband's inability to cope with so many on his own, the stronger likelihood is that homeschooling is the real concern.
The judge made it a condition of the children's return that they must be enrolled in a 'normal' school.
Since that stipulation there have been expert reports on 5 of the 6 children that state that homeschooling has been a relative success and mention that the children get along with each other, have a good general knowledge, and are really quite strong and confident.
Do you think that counts?
A campaign has been started to sign a letter of petition on behalf of the Gorber family requesting the return of their children, at Medrum.de.
At the moment is has not been translated into English so I would not expect you to be adding your name to it until such time as it was. Here is the original German letter (pdf) and signature form (pdf).
However I do have some contact details for your own letters ...
Family Court
Amtsgericht – Familiengericht
Herrn Richter Gerhard Völk
Bahnhofstr. 8
88662 Überlingen
Germany
Child, Youth and Family Service
Landratsamt Bodenseekreis
Jugendamt –
Herrn Landrat Wölfle
Glärnischstr. 1-3
88045 Friedrichshafen
Germany
Police
Polizei Überlingen
Mühlenstr. 16
88662 Überlingen
Germany
Please try to write respectfully and avoid comparisons with Hitler and the 3rd Reich. These are going to need to be written and send fairly promptly folks especially if going snail mail as you know how quick the postal service is!
The opportunity to send cards or letters to the family and/or the children themselves still stands too!
[Remember you can send us a .jpg photo for the Gorber Gallery as well - gorber [at] 7doves [dot] com ]
Familie Gorber
Max-Mutscheller-Str. 2
88662 Überlingen
Germany
Postscript
Here is one more contact for the regional education authority (the ones who can re-interpret the law in Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Dr. Margret Ruep,
Abteilung 7,
Regierungspraesidium Stuttgart
Postfach 103642
70031 Stuttgart
Germany
Email
Comment feed for this postYou have terrified the Gorber family children with your act of intolerance. Please return those helpless children
