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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=jenfand@yahoo.fr href="mailto:jenfand@yahoo.fr">Jennifer Fandard</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=leda@lesenfantsdabord.org
href="mailto:leda@lesenfantsdabord.org">leda@lesenfantsdabord.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=ledaconseil@lesenfantsdabord.org
href="mailto:ledaconseil@lesenfantsdabord.org">ledaconseil@lesenfantsdabord.org</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 07, 2008 11:52 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [leda] Tr : 70 years compulsory school attendance in
Germany - Press release</DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,new york,times,serif">Pour
info, communiqué de presse sur 70 ans d'obligation de fréquenter une école en
Allemagne. Le Netzwerk allemand réclame la suppression de cette obligation
et demande une législation permettant un pluralisme éducatif, le droit de
choisir son école et le droit de choisir d'autres formes d'instruction hors
école, cette diversité étant mutuellement enrichissante.<BR><BR>A+
Jennifer<BR><BR>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,new york,times,serif">-----
Message transféré ----<BR>De : Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit <<A
href="mailto:kontakt@netzwerk-bildungsfreiheit.de">kontakt@netzwerk-bildungsfreiheit.de</A>><BR>À
: info@netzwerk-bildungsfreiheit.de<BR>Envoyé le : Samedi, 5 Juillet 2008,
18h18mn 48s<BR>Objet : 70 years compulsory school attendance in Germany -
Press release <BR><BR>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
size=3>Dear Friends,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
size=3>enclosed I send you our press release on the occasion of 70 years
compulsory school attendance in Germany, since Hitler installed the law in 1938.
We hope that freedom will come in our country and the infamous law will come to
an end. However it is still a long way. As you know, the Dudek family will be
soon imprisoned for homeschooling their children. You may spread and publish the
press release whereever you want, please mention Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit as
source. Thank you for your support and assistance. We hope that compulsory
school attendance will break down soon like the wall in
Berlin.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
size=3>Yours sincerly</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
size=3>Joerg Grosseluemern</FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Executive Board </FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
size=3>Am Hahnengraben 8</FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>90592 Schwarzenbruck</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
size=3><A href="mailto:info@netzwerk-bildungsfreiheit.de" target=_blank
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ymailto="mailto:info@netzwerk-bildungsfreiheit.de">info@netzwerk<FONT
color=#000000>-bildungsfreiheit.de</FONT></A><FONT
color=#000000></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
color=#000000 size=3></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In Freedom
Learning Is Better <SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">70 Years of compulsory school
attendance are enough<SPAN> </SPAN>-<SPAN> </SPAN>this relic has
outlived its usefulness</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">When the
national socialistic leadership under Adolf Hitler and Reichsminister Dr. Rust
signed the </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Reichsschulgesetz
(Reich/Imperial School Legislation)</SPAN><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> in
Berchtesgaden</SPAN><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><SPAN
lang=IT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">on
July 6, 1938, they could not have imagined that the essential components of this
law would remain in force even 70 years later. With the downfall of the
so-called 'Thousand Year Reich' most of the laws and ordinances from that
timeframe disappeared.<SPAN> </SPAN>But the unique German compulsory
school attendance law in effect across all Europe which empowered the state to
lead children to school with the help of the police and even by force if
necessary; that law remained unchanged. The school policymakers of most of the
German federal states incorporated this paragraph almost word-for-word into
their legislation.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The 6th of
July 1938 represents an historic break, up to that day non-school and
alternative educational methods were possible and were practiced, even if to
modest levels. <SPAN> </SPAN>Although compulsory school attendance was
introduced in Prussia in 1717, one could still find the words in the
Reichsverfassung, the Imperial Constitution, of March 28, 1849 that:<SPAN>
</SPAN>"schooling in the home is not subject to any constraints."
<SPAN> </SPAN>The existing compulsory education had always been interpreted
up to 1938 in the sense of an 'obligation for instruction' and allowed for
exceptions. The majority of democratically constituted states in the world
therefore do not require any compulsory school attendance, but practice an
'obligation for instruction' leaving room for a multitude of alternatives as to
how children learn today,</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The inherently
violent Compulsory School Attendance laws have lead to such incomprehensible
outgrowths that in 2007 the 15 year old daughter of an exemplary family from the
city of Erlangen was forcibly compelled to enter a psychiatric clinic under a
very large police presence and Youth Services action. Her crime:<SPAN>
</SPAN>she was receiving individual instruction and nurturing in the home,
instead of continuing to visit the public school, where the learning environment
provided increasing difficulties.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Dudek
family, an academic family from Archfeld in Hesse, will soon have to pay for
their preference for a free educational form by serving terms of
imprisonment.<SPAN> </SPAN>Their eldest son learned so well at home that
he was able to pass his Realschulabschluss (secondary school final examinations)
at the top of the class with a grade of 1.1, but the spirit of the
Reichsschulpflichtgesetzes <SPAN> </SPAN>(Reich/Imperial School
Legislation) demands its tribute in the form of a prison sentence of 3 months
each for the father and the mother.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Other
free-learning families are emigrating from Germany and leaving their familiar
environments, but are looking forward to their newly-won freedom in our
neighboring European states.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The fact that an atmosphere of
compulsion and pressure cannot provide a lasting, successful learning experience
is not under dispute by subject matter experts in the field.<SPAN>
</SPAN>The fact that German educational politicians insist on physical presence
in a school building under all circumstances, although learning in other
locations and under other circumstances is frequently at least equally as good,
if not more successful, is neither comprehensible nor up-to-date.</SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It is time to implement the
unambiguous declarations of </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">UN-Special Commissioner Vernor Munoz
de Villalobos </SPAN><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">who stated during his visit to
Germany that "</SPAN><I><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">education cannot be reduced to
simple attendance at a school</SPAN></I><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN> </SPAN>. . .
</SPAN><I><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Alternatives such as distance
learning and<SPAN> </SPAN>"homeschooling" are possible options which may
come into consideration under certain circumstances . . ."</SPAN></I><SPAN
lang=IT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">After these 70
years the Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit (Network on Educational Freedom) calls for
the complete elimination of Germany Compulsory School Attendance, and calls for
establishment of a legislative basis to make possible diverse school-based and
non-school educational paths, which may compete with one another and thereby
enrich both sides. We view freedom and diversity instead of state monopolies as
the best way out of the German educational malaise.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Chancellor Merkel's motto "Dare to be more Free" should finally also
apply to the area of education.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The "Netzwerk
Bildungsfreiheit" <SPAN> </SPAN>(Network on Educational Freedom) is an
affiliation of organizations, parent initiatives, and individuals across Germany
who are concerned about the right of free access to education, for a free choice
and free structuring of the individual personal educational path, with the
assistance of public as well as private initiative resources.</SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Responsible:
Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit e.V. Nürnberg – Board of Trustees and executive
Board</SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Contact Point
For Further Information: </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Jörg
Großelümern, Am Hahnengraben 8, 90592 Schwarzenbruck<SPAN>
</SPAN>Germany</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)">Telephone (0163) 162 7301,
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