Kappert
Why should the Romeike children learn about the Holocaust in the tiny age of 12? Their parents decide what they will learn, different to the German school system which provides up-to-date knowledge and methods to critically question that knowledge.

From your remarks I can't really figure out if you think that the parents or the state want to impress holocaust awareness on the tiny youngster. Which is it?

atheling
This leftover Third Reich garbage about state-controlled education superceding that of the parents' right to educate their children as they see fit needs to go

Indeed, so has a whole bunch of other 3rd Reich garbage in our law texts. Then again, people always argue secretly, whether some aspects of Nazi-Doctrine can be considered good/not-evil. Mind that you should never utter such a question in the german public for fear of becoming shunned socially. The lawmakers of the late 40s however never asked the "moral" question. They just implemented Nazi laws with the blessing of allied occupying forces.

heplev

you hit the mark with your refutation. Never mind that there is a lot of homeschooling in Germany. It is just not conducted by the ethnic majority, rather by all kinds of minorities, whose customs and heritage come before all justice and law. Never mind again, that this sort of homeschooling is at best questionable in quality and in it's helpfulness towards peaceful integration. Keyword here is: islamic indoctrination.

Kapitän Andre: It is disingenuous to claim that the illegality of homeschooling in Germany is a remnant of National Socialism, as it traces its roots to Prussian compulsory state education, and was also illegal during the Weimar era.

Fair enough. In Germany today there are however a wide range of school types to choose from (if affordable). The shortcoming is still the lack of a balanced mix ideology-wise. There are many alternative schooling systems which unfortunately are to be found left of Germany's leftist-mainstream schooling system.

Last I heard there is an increasing onslaught against traditional christian colleges both from in- and outside. Secular politicians strife to remove the last crucifixes from bavarian schools to name one example. But also Christian evangelical "postmodernism" (id est egalitarianism) saws at the branch the christian community is sitting on.

It is disingenuous to claim that the illegality of homeschooling in Germany is a remnant of National Socialism, as it traces its roots to Prussian compulsory state education, and was also illegal during the Weimar era.  Personally, I support the legality of homeschooling and other such alternatives within the context of compulsory education, as homeschooled children are better educated and socialized than their private and public-educated peers.  There is no longer a significant need to provide mass literacy and basic education in the West, and so alternatives should be permitted and even encouraged.

I sincerely hope that this granting of asylum causes the German government to reflect on its obsolete education laws, rather than dismiss this event as purely an instance of American Evangelical or fundamentalist Christians supporting German ones.

1) @Frank Lee: Those people who want to homeschool their children are humble. But they steadfastly reject the state imposing opinion and worldview on them. That's all.

2) German school system with up-to-date knowledge and methods of critically questioning that knowledge? I've got a bridge for you.... "critical thinking" in German school system means parroting what left leaning mainstream good-doers tell you.

3) Debate in Germany on home schooling? What debate? Wish there was one. Those debating home schooling are a tiny minority, mainly ingored by the public. The only times the subject comes up is in case some people get punished by the state. And then the media just parrot that the state know best and parents don't. How nice!

Now we in America will be stuck receiving even more victims of European self-destruction, most of whom will bring with them the same arrogant, condescending attitudes we saw before (about how inferior is the American culture that is saving their ass).

This leftover Third Reich garbage about state-controlled education superceding that of the parents' right to educate their children as they see fit needs to go.  Instead of "father knows best", it's "state knows best", and the German people should know better than that. 

Why should the Romeike children learn about the Holocaust in the tiny age of 12? Their parents decide what they will learn, different to the German school system which provides up-to-date knowledge and methods to critically question that knowledge. 'Home Schooling' is nothing less but the unique decision of the parents with what kind of knowledge their children will be confronted with. Doubtfully their children have the right to learn and to think.