[fieldmarshaldj]

Homeschooling was outlawed by the Nazis. They kept the policies.

[AnalogReigns]

Homeschooling was outlawed by the Nazis.

Cite me your evidence for that. German bureaucracy, and European governments generally, were very controlling, LONG BEFORE the Nazis.

It's very easy to blame anything we don't like in Germany on the Nazis...and tends to end the discussion, eh?

Truancy laws....found in the USA from the 19th Century onwards, and in Europe before the USA, corresponding with mandatory public education, are what generally have been used as "anti-homeschooling" regulations.

I'm not saying German law about homeschooling is good--but understandably GIVEN THEIR HISTORY they want to make sure little radical groups are not mis-educating their children.

The biggest German fear now, is that the Moslem immigrants will homeschool their kids to be Islamic terrorists...

[wolf78]

Homeschooling was outlawed by the Nazis. They kept the policies.

That is nonsense. Homeschooling was illegal a hundred years before the Nazis, with the beginnings of mandatory schooling tracing back to the 18th century (Generallandschulreglement).

...doch höchstens vom fünften Jahre ihres Alters in die Schule schicken, auch damit ordentlich bis ins dreizehnte und vierzehnte Jahr kontinuieren und sie so lange zur Schule halten sollen, bis sie nicht nur das Nötigste vom Christentum gefasst haben und fertig lesen und schreiben, ... (they shall be sent to school from the age of 5 until 13 or 14, where they shall learn the basics of Christendom and how to read and write).

The only difference was that the German kingdoms and duchies all had their own laws, whereas the Nazis came up with a national law. But ironically, even that isn't the case anymore, as the responsibility for education went back to the German states in 1948.

So no, the Nazi connection is flat out wrong.