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Wir habe auch die Berichterstattung in HessenSchau gesehen (19:30) -- schrecklich, kann ich nur sagen. Sogar meine Kinder, die alle zur Schule gehen, empfanden diese Berichterstattung als völliger einseitiger Unsinn (gegen die Familie Dudek). Vor allem das Interview im Nachhinein mit jemanden aus dem Kultusministerium.

Ja dieser Staatssekretär war besonders abstossend. Dabei merkt dieser Mensch überhaupt nicht wie sehr er einem Staatsfundamentalismus huldigt, der seinesgleichen sucht. Nur die Schule und damit der Staat ist in seinen Augen die alleinseligmachende Sozialisations-, Bildungs- und Lebensertüchtigungsanstalt. Alle anderen sind dazu unfähig.

Wonderful!

Very nice - one can only hope someone in Sweden actually sees it. Here is a copy of the letter we sent to the Swedish Education Ministry (at skollagen@education.ministry.se)

Dear Sir/Madam,

It is truly hard to understand why Sweden would want to take a huge step backward by adopting anti-homeschooling legislation. Such legislation is more in line with the WW II-era laws still in force in Germany and which are being challenged ever more strongly in the courts, rather than with the modern/progressive approaches taken in the United States and the majority of Europe (France, England, Switzerland, Austria, etc.).... Read More

Those educated on the topic recognize that this is clearly not a question of academic standards and achievement. After all, homeschoolers routinely outperform their public-school peers, as well-documented in Progress Report 2009: Homeschool Academic Achievement and Demographics (see http://www.hslda.org/docs/media/2009/200908100.asp). Our own daughter, home-schooled since age 7, is now studying at Arizona State University with the highest merit scholarship offered by that institution. Removing her from the cookie-cutter public school environment was the best decision we could have made.

On the contrary, the clear implication is that this legislation derives not from an altruistic desire to benefit children, but rather from fear and an agenda of control – the educational establishment’s irrational fear of the superior results demonstrated by the home-schooling community, and a desire for increased power and control by government bureaucrats.

We can only encourage the Swedish legislature to “lift the covers” and expose the true motivation for this proposed legislation.

Most sincerely,

Derek and Heike Davis (US and German nationals, respectively)