Homeschoolers seek asylum from Nazi-era law
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'We left family, our home ... but the freedom is worth it'
Michael Farris, founder of Home School Legal Defense Association
The Homeschool Legal Defense Association is helping a family with an unusual, first-of-its-kind application: political asylum in the United States from Germany's oppressive homeschooling laws.
The Uwe and Hannelore Romeike family fled their native Bissingen, Germany, to escape persecution under a Nazi-era law requiring all children to attend public school to avoid "the emergence of parallel societies based on separate philosophical convictions" that could be taught by parents at home.
WND reported two years ago on the day police knocked on the Romeike's door and forcibly escorted their children to public school.
The family fled Germany and this summer arrived in Tennessee, where they hope they will be permitted to make a permanent home.
Speaking of their new life in Tennessee, Mrs. Romeike told HSLDA, "The freedom we have to homeschool our children is wonderful. ... We don't have to worry about looking over our shoulder anymore, wondering when the youth welfare officials will come or how much money we have to pay in fines."