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In most of the European countries teaching at home, "Homeschooling" is, permitted or at least tolerated. There is hardly a country which is holding on to compulsory education so doggedly as Germany – with all consequences for the persons concerned.

When Moritz increasingly reacted with illnesses and aggressive behaviour after visiting school, his parents Dagmar and Tilman
Neubronner, conceded to the prompting of their  then eight year old son, to unsubscribe him from school. Since this time, Moritz is learning at home, with his younger brother Thomas as well – despite the compulsory education law in Germany.

Thomas attended only two weeks at public school.

Escape from compulsory school
As the authorities get to know about that,  high amounts of penalty payments are imposed on the Neubronners under penalty of further arbitrary measures, if they don't send their children to school. For fear of forfeiting custody, the family leaves Germany and resides largely in european foreign countries – up to the present day.

The parents are fighting relentlessly for the freedom of learning  of their children, in order that the family can live a normal life in the city of Bremen, where their home is. Today Moritz and Thomas are twelve ans ten years old and would actually be in 7th and 5th grade. Instead they are voluntarily learning at home and determining their goals themselves. The Neubronners adhere to what iis often referred to as Unschooling. They follow a philosophy, in which children learn best  best without constraint, and therefore enjoy learning.

Struggle for the freedom of learning
Also Rosemarie and Jürgen Dudek are opposed to compulsory education. They educate their children at home as in a one-room school. The timetable complies with the official curriculum. Four of their seven children are at the moment required to attend school.
The Dudeks want to live according to their particular  belief in god and the bible. For this reason they don't want to leave their children to state schools, where they don't retrieve their values.

In contrary to other pious christians the Dudeks neither belong to a religious group, nor do they try to keep their children away from the world. They tie social contacts at the volunteer fire brigade, in the swimming club or at the scouts.

Like most parents Rosemarie and Jürgen Dudek also want the best for their children. In order that their oldest son Jonathan ends his school years with a state graduation,  he attended the second half of the 10th grade of a middle school (Realschule) last year. With the mark 1.1 he terminated the school year as best pupil.

Prison sentence for parents
Meanwhile  Rosemarie and Jürgen Dudek teach their children at home for almost ten years. Because of changes of residence they had been undiscovered by authorities for a long time. Last year the parents have been sentenced to each three months of prison, not on probation. The Dudeks appealed and for now don't have to go to prison. Now they wait for the final verdict.

Video is in German,
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