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Unfortunately, in most of Europe, home-schooling continues to be illegal - as in, the police show up at your house and pick up your kids if you try...in extreme cases you can go to jail. So we are forced to send our kids to the public school or pay up to send them to a private school.

So sad. Hoping some hard research on the benefits of home-schooling (and even un-schooling) might end up changing minds, but it seems doubtful it will happen any time soon, at least for my kids here in Germany.

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Its a double sided sword. If you make it easy to take your kids out of school every nutcase religous freaks takes them out am teaches bullshit (witch is kindof like crippling them).

On the other hands if you have parents that can handly it, cant do it its bad too. How about hacking the system and open your own school let the kids pay 100'000 a year, then your kids will be the only ones going :)

Edit: Im from Switzerland an I think we have the same rules.

I was cooperatively-schooled (i.e. a small group of parents getting together and taking turns to home-school their children) in England. It was ensured that what we were taught complied with the essentials of the national curriculum (which gave a surprising amount of leeway - I was taught creationist science!) and the authorities were notified of what we were doing. It was very successful.

I don't know about Germany but it's possible that it may be similarly easy to tick the right boxes for the local authorities there too.