Melissa Busekros interview
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007CBNews has an exclusive interview with Melissa Busekros. The German teen talks about being removed from her family and her faith that God will work everything out for them.
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Dana at Principled Discovery has an update on Melissa Busekros. She has turned 16 and has left her foster home to return home. The Youth Welfare Office no longer has authority over her. There is an article about the news here, but it is in German. If you’re not fluent in German, like I am not, you can get a fairly good translation using BabelFish. Just enter in the url of the page and choose to translate from German to English. There is also an article about the situation that you can read here.
You can send birthday wishes for her to falumafischer@aol.com
Homeschooling in Germany
Friday, April 20th, 2007I have been hoping to find more information on Melissa Busekros, the 15 year old girl in Germany removed from her home for homeschooling. So far the latest I have heard was about the ‘Youth worker’ lies about homeschool student. The social worker was claiming that Melissa was happy in foster care and did not want to return home, despite Melissa’s repeatedly begging to go home. There is some updated news here
However, there is another family in Germany now facing a similar fate. Court Takes Custody of 5 Homeschoolers.
A court in eastern Germany has taken custody of five children away from their homeschooling parents, but has not yet removed the children from the home. The parents, Bert and Kathrin Brause of Zittau, lost custody of their children, Rosine, Jotham, Kurt-Simon, Lovis and Ernst, to the local youth welfare office.
It certainly makes you feel lucky to be living in a place where homeschooling is legal, doesn’t it?
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An update to the Busekros saga
Monday, February 26th, 2007 Many homeschoolers have been following the story of Melissa Busekros, the German girl who was removed from her family for homeschooling. For those unfamilar here is a short recap. Melissa Busekros is a young girl in Germany who was homeschooled. In her 7th year of school she failed two classes and was going to have to repeat the entire year. Rather than see her repeat classes that she had passed her parents began tutoring her at home. Home schooling has been illegal in Germany for many years, Adolf Hitler created the bans on home education in order to force every child into the public school system, which at that time was nothing more than giant brainwashing camps for the Nazi cause. Though Hitler is gone those laws remain in effect. Melissa was forcably removed from her home and placed in a psychiatric institute for having “school phobia” and her parents here stripped of their rights.
Now there has been another developement. The WorldNetDaily is reporting that officials are demanding that the Busekros family surrender custody of their other children as well, children who were in the public school system. Many groups such as the HSLDA are working here in America to help the Busekros family.
Personally I think it is horrible, to have your daughter ripped from you for something as simple as homeschooling. And on top of that to be threatened that your other children will be removed too. I can not believe that these archane laws are still being upheld in Germany today. Thankfully here in the US we know our contitutional rights as parents will be held and homeschooling will remain free and active. Or will it?
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