Jennifer has an interesting entry from yesterday about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor, writer, dissident and martyr who was ultimately executed for his crimes against the Nazi regime. She shares an interesting excerpt from a documentary about his life:
The church has three possible ways it can act against the state. First, it can ask [...]
This is a continuation of the post on Melissa Busekros because it was getting long enough that some were having trouble loading it. I will continue updates here, but there is a good deal of history on the subject over there.
World Magazine has a nice article about Melissa. The family’s “Kindergeld” was finally [...]
March 27, 2007 – 12:50 pm
I have a great deal of respect for Valerie over at Home Education Magazine given that she is one of very few people in the discussion of homeschooling in Germany that has access to information beyond what is being reported by HSLDA, WND, LifeSite, etc. as well as personal experience with the culture.
In her recent [...]
I’ve probably been reading a tad too much German education news recently, so probably made a leap in logic that not everyone will take with me. But this story about Knut, a baby polar bear who was abandoned by his mother in the Berlin Zoo, struck something within me that seems highly ironic. [...]
January 28, 2007 – 3:39 am
“Die Ermittlung” (The Investigation) by Peter Weiss is one of the most dramatic plays I have ever read. There is no “dramatic license” and no manipulation of facts to tell the story. There is no real climax. And no real conclusion. It is difficult to read. The terror moves forward, [...]
December 26, 2006 – 3:38 pm
The German Embassy in Ottawa has issued a statement, apparently in response to the volume of letters the embassy has received regarding the homeschool situation in Germany. Unfortunately, the statement is full of inaccuracies:
In Germany education is subject to provincial (”Laender”) and not federal law. Generally, school attendance is obligatory in all provinces for [...]
December 23, 2006 – 3:14 pm
The situation of homeschoolers in Germany interests me greatly, because I am a homeschooler and because I spent such a long time living over in Germany. The reason I keep bringing it up (beyond personal interest) is that the goals of the German state in compulsory attendance laws parallel the goals of many of our [...]
December 16, 2006 – 8:11 pm
I’ve been going through updates on the situation regarding homeschooling in Germany and most of them are rather depressing. Another family before the courts. A threatening letter from the state officials. A state which previously viewed homeschooling as illegal, but not threatening to the safety of the children, altering course to become one [...]
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