The court system went through the rules....lack of educational options....isn’t one of those hundred-odd ways that you get asylum in America.
The bottom line issue to this is that Germany runs their education along the lines of the apprentice program. You need to fill x-number of squares as a kid progressing through the school system, then progress to the apprentice program where you train for a job and a goal in life.
The home-schooling program works in the US....but connecting it into the German idea of apprentice-training is a big question mark.
Curiously, a couple thousand Germans pack up and leave Germany each year for Canada. This family could have done the same thing, and easily been accepted there with no issues. For some reason, they felt it’d be an easy sell on the asylum deal, and the courts noted this isn’t one of those reasons you can use. If they’d all said they were gay or Nazis....with German persution of them....it’d been an easier sell.
They should have said they were from Mexico.
Even easier, see my #9. Germany is surrounded by countries where homeschooling is legal - and as EU citizens they could move there with no restrictions at all.
No, you completely misunderstand. This is a holdover law from Nazi Germany, when they didn’t want the church or family views to influence and counteract, or not expose their children to the propaganda children were being fed in the schools. Like many places now, aggressive pro-abortion is pushed and “don’t worry about your old fashioned parents, they just don’t want you to have fun having sex.” They try and undermine religious beliefs.
People have forcibly had their children taken AT GUNPOINT. It is precisely for people like them that our country is a haven for all freedom loving people. They ARE being oppressed. I don’t give a crap that Germany is a “modern democratic state.” On this point they are as bad as HITLER.