Unfortunately, hearing about guns in public schools is not unusual. Just typing that sentence makes my heart break for our country and its children. But we have other options. We can homeschool. Not only is it legal here in the USA, it’s an accepted and growing trend.
This is not the case everywhere in the world. In Germany it’s illegal to homeschool. There was a story awhile back about a German family (the Romeikes) who sought asylum here so they could have the freedom to homeschool their children.
And now there is the story of the Wunderlich family. The Wunderlichs, another German family, felt the public education system in Germany was nothing but indoctrination, in their opinion. They decided to homeschool their family. The legal problems that followed led them to move to other countries in Europe. While they were able to homeschool there, they were not able to find work. Returning to Germany resulted in the confiscation of the children’s passports. Then the final blow came Thursday, August 29 at 8:00am local time when a group of 20 people, including armed gunmen, stormed the Wunderlich home and took their children.
Took their children! At 8:00am. Can you imagine??!! It’s 8:00am at your house. You’ve just finished breakfast. You and Child #1 are taking care of the dishes. Child #2 is bringing up the dirty clothes to start a load of laundry before your homeschool day begins. Child #3 is powering up the desktop to get a jumpstart on her new online math curriculum. Child #4 is taking out his crayons to color while his school-age siblings study. There is a rap on the door. It opens to a small army who quickly fill your living room. They restrain you in a chair while they gather your children and take them away. You try to hug them goodbye and are prevented from doing so. “It’s too late for that,” you’re told.
Can you imagine??
Celebrate the freedom you have. Hug your kids. Give homeschooling your very best effort.
And whisper a prayer right now for the Wunderlich family.
To help Wunderlich family, visit the Homeschool Legal Defense Association at http://www.hslda.org/
News Sources:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/homeschool-raid-on-family-viewed-as-terror/
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