German Family Seeks U.S. Asylum to Homeschool Kids

[Mrs Behavin]

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. — Homeschooling is so important to Uwe Romeike that the classically trained pianist sold his beloved grand pianos to pay for moving his wife and five children from Germany to the Smoky Mountain foothills of Tennessee.
Romeike, his wife Hannelore, and their children live in a modest duplex about 40 miles northeast of Knoxville while they seek political asylum here. They say they were persecuted for their evangelical Christian beliefs and homeschooling their children in Germany, where school attendance is compulsory.
When the Romeikes wouldn't comply with repeated orders to send the children to school, police came to their home one October morning in 2006 and took the children, crying and upset, to school.
"We tried not to open the door, but they (police) kept ringing the doorbell for 15 or 20 minutes," Romeike said. "They called us by phone and spoke on the answering machine and said they would knock open the door if we didn't open it. So I opened it."
Romeike, like many conservative parents in the U.S., said he wanted to teach his own children because his children's German school textbooks contained language and ideas that conflicted with his family's values.

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[skyblue]

this is a tricky one to deal with

 

[siasl]

this is a tricky one to deal with

"We tried not to open the door, but they (police) kept ringing the doorbell for 15 or 20 minutes," Romeike said. "They called us by phone and spoke on the answering machine and said they would knock open the door if we didn't open it. So I opened it."

welpers...i personally question the overriding importance attached by some to the values in "christain evangelism".....but i question even more the right of society to impose it's will wrt education on everybody.

isn't it just the same can-o-worms as those who want it to be mandatory that every child be force to consider intelligent design as a viable scientific theory?

 

[kelvin070]

You will have one in a million weird people seeking political assylum for stupid reasons.

 

[SgtSpike]

Interesting... why don't they just go through all the regular immigration channels?