Asile politique accordé à une famille allemande aux US

[p.a]

A US judge has granted ­political asylum to a German family who said they had fled the country to avoid persecution for home schooling their children.

In the first reported case of its kind, Tennessee immigration judge Lawrence Burman ruled that the family of seven have a legitimate fear of prosecution for their beliefs. Germany requires parents to enrol their children in school in most cases and has levied fines against those who ­educate their children at home.

Christians Uwe Romeike, a piano teacher, and his wife, Hannelore, moved to Morristown, Tennessee, in 2008 after ­German authorities fined them thousands of euros for keeping their children out of school and sent police to escort them to classes, Romeike said. They had been holding classes in their home.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/2…g-family-asylum

[Serge]

En France, c'est interdit ?

[SilenT BoB]

Non on peut faire l'éducation de ses enfants à la maison, mais je crois que c'est le festival aux assistantes sociales et tout le tralala. Il faut suivre les programmes par contre si mes souvenirs sont bons.

[Esperluette]

Je crois (à vérifier) qu'en France, c'est assez contraignant : si tu pratiques l'IEF, tu n'as pas le droit d'inscrire ton mouflet dans une association à vocation éducative, même pas pour une heure par semaine.

[Nick de Cusa]

Il y a un article dans The Economist aussi. On y découvre qu'en Grande Bretagne, l'Etat a alors "le droit" de rentrer chez vous en votre absence pour interroger vos enfants. Et je crois que la dernière phrase de l'article va dans le sens de le justifier (ce n'est pas clair).

Home schooling

Classes apart

Why some countries welcome children being taught at home and others don’t

Feb 4th 2010 | From The Economist print edition

AP The Romeikes, free at last

UNLIKE many of the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” that have sought refuge in America, the Romeike family comes from a comfortable place: Bissingen an der Teck, a town in south-western Germany. Yet on January 26th an American immigration judge granted the Romeikes—a piano teacher, his wife and five children—political asylum, accepting their case that difficulties with home schooling their children created a reasonable fear of persecution.

Under Germany’s stringent rules, home schooling is allowed only in exceptional circumstances. Before emigrating, Mr and Mrs Romeike had been fined some €12,000 ($17,000); policemen had arrived at their house and forcibly taken their children to school. The Romeikes feared that the youngsters might soon be removed by the state.

In September 2006 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Germany was within its rights to follow this approach. Schools represented society, it judged, and it was in the children’s interest to become part of that society. The parents’ right to raise their offspring did not go as far as depriving their children of the social experience of school.

Despite its illegality, home schooling in Germany is becoming more popular. Thomas Spiegler, a sociologist at Friedensau Adventist University, a Protestant theological college, reckons that 600 to 1,000 children are being taught at home. He wants Germany to rethink its approach and look at the regulated home-schooling regimes elsewhere in Europe.

In Sweden, for example, parents must apply annually for permission to teach their children at home. Two years ago the authorities revoked that permission for Lisa Angerstig, an MBA-holding mother-of-four. They have threatened her with a fine of SKr10,000 (about $1,400). Now new legislation is pending that would make home schooling even harder. Dominic Johansson, a seven-year-old, has been in state foster care since June 2009—in order to stop his parents home schooling him, campaigners say (officials cite other issues too).

In Britain home schooling has become more popular, but worries about the risk of abuse have prompted calls for mandatory inspections and tougher rules, including the right for officials to enter a home and quiz a home-schooled child in the parents’ absence.

The Romeikes’ lawyer is Mike Donnelly, director of international relations for the Home School Legal Defence Association, a group based in Virginia. He cites research showing that home-schooled children tend to excel both academically and socially in later life. But that will not convince people who believe it is the state’s duty to ensure that children mix with others, and learn what everyone else learns about thorny topics such as evolution and sex.

http://www.economist.com/world/internation…ory_id=15469407

[jubal]

En France, c'est interdit ?

Non, pas si les enfants suivent les cours du CNED par correspondance.

Il est en revanche interdit que ces enfants aillent a un cours chez le voisin, il me semble que ce sont les lois "anti-sectes" qui sont utilisees dans ce cas la contre les classes independantes.

[Lexington]

http://www.contrepoints.org/Les-Etats-Unis…nt-l-asile.html