School Survival

The Neubronners, a German homeschooling family in Bremen, Germany, have been fighting for several years to homeschool their children. When the government refused to allow them to homeschool, they sued. In response, they have been harshly persecuted by the local authorities.The Neubronners have suffered intense pressure in the form of huge, coercive fines (nearing $10,000), […]

On November 5, 2007, the superintendent of General McLane School District notified a Home School Legal Defense Association member family that he had terminated their home education program because they had failed to submit quarterly reports to his office.According to the superintendent's letter to the family, he had approved their program at the beginning of […]

Dagmar and Tillman Neubronner were home at their small publishing house in the City-State of Bremen, Germany, when a knock came at the door. Outside were two German marshals who wanted to enter and see if there were any possessions they could seize and sell to pay the $6,300 fine levied against the family because […]

I got this from the Home School Legal Defense Association mailing list:Homeschooling is not legal in Romania, even though the homeschool movement is steadily growing. Home School Legal Defense Association has been working with Gabriel Curcubet, president of the Romanian Home Schooling Association, in order to convince the Romanian government to specifically recognize and legalize […]

A new situation representing the plight of homeschoolers in Germany is developing in the state of Hesse.The Dudeks, a homeschooling family of eight, were tried, convicted and fined 900 euros (about $1,200) in May for not sending their children to school. Hessian law allows for an exception to compulsory school attendance in "compelling cases." But, […]

When you hear stories of high academic achievement by homeschoolers, it's routine for opponents to try to minimize the results by asserting that not all homeschoolers are required to test over the same testing instruments.Their goal is to show that homeschooling isn't a viable educational alternative that can benefit a large number of children. If […]

Channel 4 News Online reveals that the number of children being schooled at home has risen by more than 60 per cent in the past five years.More than 80 per cent of education authorities reported hikes in the number of children being educated at home, according to the Freedom of Information (FoI) probe.In one area […]

Topic: Any youth rights issue you choose to write about.Deadline: August 15th, 2007Prize: $500 (if and only if your entry is selected for 1st place).Essays may be in the form of a well-researched paper, a well-reasoned persuasive argument, or an account of a personal experience. Choose one of the following topics to write about:At Home: […]

The winners of this year's National Geographic Bee, Caitlin Snaring of Washington state, and the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Evan O'Dorney of California, were educated primarily by their parents in home-based instruction programs, a fact that was underreported by the media. Another underreported fact is that despite homeschoolers making up just 3 percent of the […]

We all have heard the term "teenage rebellion." It's conventional wisdom that teens go through a period of turbulent adolescence before-it is hoped-they settle down and become mature, productive adults.Recently, the media and sections of the scientific community have concluded that because brain scans show the teen brain operates differently than the average adult brain […]