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Saturday, November 9, 2013
GERMANY'S QUEST TO STAMP OUT HOMESCHOOLING~PERSECUTION STEPS UP~RUSSIA HAS MORE EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM THAN GERMANY
TO GET TO THE CHILDREN INSIDE THE WUNDERLICH HOME:
Germany's Quest to Stamp Out Home Schooling:
Published on Oct 3, 2013
Darmstadt Germany
The German government continues to hunt down and persecute home schoolers. Yet another homeschooling family has been targeted by the Jugendamt in its quest to wipe out educational freedom. -- Another German home schooling family was ripped apart when an army of German police officers and social workers surrounded the home of the Wunderlichs near Frankfurt a few weeks ago and took away their children. The arbitrary and capricious way the Jugendamt moves against good families has led some to the conclusion that the system amounts to a (child trafficking) operation. It is a system in which a steady supply of children is needed to make sure foster homes, social workers, and court-appointed experts get paid. "There is a system of persons, of social workers, of teachers, psychotherapists, who live on children being taken out of the family," German psychologist Carola Storm-Knirsch said. "We call it industry." Storm-Knirsch is a psychologist who has worked for the Jugendamt on several cases. "There are homes with empty beds. And they need children. And they call the Jugendamt and say, 'Hello, do you have a child for us?'" she explained. Dirk Wunderlich said the system "...destroys humanity. They destroy feelings, heart, all." "The longer the children remain [in the foster care system], the more they become like zombies," he said. Their crime was home schooling. After an international outcry and a court hearing, the Wunderlich children were returned. But this was not a victory for parents' rights in Germany because the Wunderlichs have been forced to send their children to school. And they still do not have custody. Victory for Totalitarian Regime "This is a victory for a totalitarian regime bent on dictating to parents what they can and cannot do with their children regarding their education," Michael Donnelly, director of International Relations at Home School Legal Defense Association, said. The German government appears obsessed with stamping out home schooling, which it views as both child abuse and subversive. The chief organ of state control of families in Germany is the Jugendamt, or Youth Office. No German parent wants to run afoul of the Jugendamt. Once the Jugendamt decides your family has a problem, it can ruin your family. It is a nationwide system of local child and family agencies that hold extraordinary power.
