09/26 Update: World Net Daily reports that HSLDA is urging American homeschoolers to write to the German embassy on behalf of Katharina Plett.
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Original post dated 09/14:
Katharina Plett is a homeschooling mom in Germany; she has been arrested for homeschooling the children. The father and children have fled to Austria. Apparently Germany does not have the equilvalent of a 4th amendment, “no warrentless search and seizure,” because that is how the German police got into her home. Hitler was the one who banned homeschooling in Germany; I did not know that Germany still has laws on the books which were enacted by Hitler.
We can do three things: Let us not forget to thank the Lord daily for the freedoms and rights we have in this country. Let us pray for the Plett family. And let us write a letter to the German embassy in Washington D.C. expressing our opinion about Germany’s treatment of Katharina Plett (be polite and respectful!):
Ambassador Klaus Scharioth
German Embassy
4645 Reservoir Road NW
Washington, DC, 20007-1998
(202) 298-4000
If every homeschooling family in America wrote one letter, showing how homeschooling has benefitted the children, the family, and our communities and country, we might go a long way to influence Germany to treat Mrs. Plett with clemency and change Germany’s antiquated homeschooling law.
Lifting up this dear family in prayer.
JoJo
I have posted your information on my blog. I really appreciate you letting us know.
Kate
Thank you for getting the word out to the widest possible audience, ladies. God bless. Love Christine
Thanks for the address to the embassy. I hope that this situations changes soon and the family is reunited in freedom.