Re: the requirement that the state *provide* an education

NL wrote:
> Stephanie schrieb:
> <snip>
>> I know this is an incindiary post. I don't mean it literally. I am
>> trying to kick up some sort of different conversation around
>> education in this country.
>
> Well, in this country we have the Schulpflicht which means sending you
> child to school is not optional, homeschooling/unschooling/etc. is
> forbidden.
>


WOA! Where do you live?

Oh and hey, my apologies to all for that "in this country." Ugly American 
and my American-centeric world. Sorry.

> On one hand that's a good thing because losing track of a child is
> very hard here. If you have a child that's old enough to go to school
> (6 and over) you will get a letter informing you about which school
> your child is "expected to show up at" and I guess if you don't
> register at that school (I'm not sure if we now have a choice, they
> changed the laws around that I think, but possibly you can register
> you child at any primary school in your district now, anyway..)  you
> get follow up letters and probably a visit from the Jugendamt (cps)
> to inform you about your rights and duties and if you/your child
> doesn't go to school you/your child can be forced to do so, if
> necessary it'll be picked up by the Police and escorted to school.
>
> On the other hand I think for some children homeschooling or private
> tutoring or something along those lines would be better. I think my
> son would have benefited from not being forced into an education
> system where there are 28 children in one classroom in first grade,
> but he's mild special needs (he can not filter sounds and has problems
> concentrating on speech, meaning a loud classroom for him means
> extreme stress and after a while he's simply unable to listen to the
> teacher anymore because there are so many sounds he just can't "hear"
> her anymore, of course everyone thinks it's a isciplinary issue and
> I'm just a really lax mom) he's changing classrooms again the next
> schoolyear which means it's his 6th group in four years, and somehow
> that's supposed to make it all better. Or something.
>
> In recent years there have been families leaving germany because they
> wanted to homeschool, some went to court before leaving the country,
> but it's generally thought of as a good thing that school is
> mandatory.
> cu
> nicole