Dear International Home Education Leaders,

Please see the following message regarding ways to assist the Wunderlich family in Germany:

Dear friends of educational freedom:

The story of the Wunderlich family has moved many of us, and we are in contact with the family. We’ve been thinking of ways how to help, and Mr. Wunderlich told us that he agrees with the advice of the HSLDA.  See their article.

We encourage you to take action and to write lots of e-mails to the German authorities listed on the website of HSLDA (see contact information here).  Please also visit and help to make known the new created website for the  family: http://wunderlich-children.com/.  

Furthermore Dirk Wunderlich is asking for your support on Thursday, September 19th: At 13.30 pm there will be a court hearing in Darmstadt. On «Mathildenplatz» you’ll find a park next to the Court house which is ideal for a gathering with as many European Homeschoolers as possible. Please let us know in a short e-mail if there would be any persons who are willing to travel to Darmstadt on that date, so we can ask the authorities for permission. It’s not clear yet if the trial is open to the public or not.

We ask you to spread this message to as many persons and organisations as possible, and as well through the social media.

If you would like to contact the Wunderlich family, here is the father’s address: dirk.wun@googlemail.com

Kind regards

Willi Villiger
Bildung zu Hause Schweiz

http://www.bildungzuhause.ch/

info@homeschool.ch

Jörg Grosselümern
Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit Deutschland

http://www.netzwerk-bildungsfreiheit.de/

kontakt@netzwerk-bildungsfreiheit.de

 

Thank you for your support for home educating families and willingness to help the Wunderlich family!

Very truly yours,

Michael P. Donnelly, Esq.

Director of International Affairs

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New Zealand and Australian Contact details:

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Please feel free to repost, forward or pass on  this Link/email

Please do so with the whole post. Thankyou

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Needing help for your home schooling journey:

https://hef.org.nz/2011/needing-help-for-your-home-schooling-journey-2/

And

Here are a couple of links to get you started home schooling:

https://hef.org.nz/getting-started-2/

and

https://hef.org.nz/exemptions/

This link is motivational: https://hef.org.nz/2012/home-schooling-what-is-it-all-about/

Exemption Form online: https://hef.org.nz/2012/home-schooling-exemption-form-now-online/

Coming Events: https://hef.org.nz/2013/some-coming-events-for-home-education-during-2013-2/

“… in what has been called a “brutal and vicious act,” a team of 20 social workers, police officers, and special agents stormed a homeschooling family’s residence near Darmstadt, Germany, forcibly removing all four of the family’s children (ages 7-14). The sole grounds for removal were that the parents, Dirk and Petra Wunderlich, continued to homeschool their children in defiance of a German ban on home education…Authorities even took the children’s passports, making it impossible for the family to escape—a violation of a number of human rights guaranteed to them by the European Convention of Human Rights, said HSLDA Chairman and Founder Michael Farris.”

Read more about it here:
http://www.hslda.org/hs/international/Germany/201308300.asp

Please call the German Embassy in New Zealand:

Tel.: +64 4 473 6063
Fax: +64 4 473 6069

Contact Political Section

Honorary Consuls

Website
Dr. Anne-Marie Schleich, Ambassador

Please call the German Embassy in Australia:

Phone: +61-2-62701911

Fax:  +61-2-62701951
Email: info@canberra.diplo.de
Website URL

HSLDA Founder and Chairman Mike Farris meets with the Wunderlich family during the Global Home Education Conference held in Berlin, Germany in October 2012. Farris is asking homeschoolers to contact German officials on behalf of the Wunderlichs.

Contact German Officials

Talking points:

• You are shocked and dismayed at the German actions in sending a SWAT team to remove the Wunderlich children.
• A UN rapporteur has criticized Germany for its harsh treatment of homeschoolers in his 2006 report on the German education system (see paragraphs 62 and 93 (g) of the report).
• Germany authorities should immediately release the Wunderlich children to their parents.
• Germany should promptly change its law to permit homeschooling to comply with its obligations under international law.

German Embassy in Washington, D.C.
(202) 298-4000
Online contact form
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School Office—Frau Christa Lettau
Staatliches Schulamt
z. Hd. Frau Christa Lettau
Rheinstr. 95
64295 Darmstadt
FR GERMANY
Tel. (+49-6151) 36 82-411
Fax (+49-6151) 36 82-402
Email: Christa.Lettau@da.ssa.hessen.de

Youth Welfare Office—Mr. Behnis
Der Kreisausschuß. des Landkreises Darmstadt-Dieburg
Jugendhilfe
Erziehungshilfe
z. Hd. Herrn K. Behnis
64276 Darmstadt
FR GERMANY
Tel. (+49-6151) 881-14 42
Fax (+49-6151) 881-14 62
k.behnis@ladadi.de (email address closed due to volume)

Herrn Harms
r.harms@ladadi.de
Tel. (+49-6151) 881-22 74
Fax (+49-6151) 881-42 74

Family Court—Judge Markus Malkmus and Judge Koenig
Amtsgericht Darmstadt
Familiengericht
z.Hd.Herrn Markus Malkmus
Postfach 1109 51
64224 Darmstadt
FR Germany

Resources

Farris: Germany Breaking Pledge to Protect Rights

For ideas on human rights arguments visit TheBerlinDeclaration.org.

You can support our fight for the Wunderlich family by donating to the Homeschool Freedom Fund.

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Home Education Foundation letter 2012

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What We Have to Say About the Romeikes Family and Homeschooling

Thank you for your petition.

The We the People Terms of Participation explain that “the White House may decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government.” To the extent that these petitions request a particular law enforcement or adjudicatory action, or address a matter before the courts, we cannot issue a comment.

But while we can’t comment on this particular issue, we know that homeschooling is a popular option for many parents pursuing high academic standards for their children. Homeschooling can provide young people with the resources and attention they need to succeed academically, and we understand why their parents value this freedom.