Germany: Dramatic Flight For family
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This information is forwarded by Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit – Network for Freedom in Education Germany and informs you about a dramatic flight of a family.
Translated by: Dana Hanley
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Dear supporting friends of the Free Education Perspective,
As a family with a gifted and talented child, we fled Germany on October 19, 2007 with two suitcases and with the last of our money being spent on our flight to Iran. This came about because of an illegitimate decision made by the Family Court of Wiesbaden, with corresponding threatenings of violent compulsory measures against us.
Marian has been in homeschooling taught by his mother (a certified biologist) since the summer of 2006, and has been learning two school years at once. He had multiple private courses such as theater, gifted and talented courses, foreign language courses, gymnastics, horseback riding, and music instruction (paid for by the grandparents) where he was together with other children.
Marian received a certificate from the Children’s College of Rheinland-Pfalz – Gifted and Talented Center on July 16, 2007 – : "Marian integrates himself very quickly into the groups within the Gifted and Talented Center, and has made some friendships here. Marian is a friendly, highly motivated child, achieving very good results in the courses. We are looking forward to Marian participating in our offerings for gifted and talented children in the winter semester".
Mrs. Thieroff, the director, educated her child by homeschooling, and that child is now studying at a university in England. She told us at the time that homeschooling was the best instruction and education method for gifted and talented children.
Because the public school authority of Wiesbaden has no suitable schools for a highly gifted and talented child such as our Marian, they, along with Child Protective Services, wanted to force him to attend the Special Education branch Friedrich-von-Schiller School for children with behavioral problems and for low performing children. This is a school where Marian at age 6 was embarrassed and struck by Social Studies teacher Mrs. Frank-Nagel, with the school director Mrs. Hubl-Stück acting in conjunction with the Wiesbaden Public School Authority to cover this up. After her lesson Marian complained of a very bad headache and feelings of nausea. Other boy and girl students in the class told their parents that Mrs. Frank-Nagel struck Marian during the lesson. A criminal complaint was then filed against Mrs. Frank-Nagel, who was charged by a judge with Willful Aggravated Battery in Office.
Because we resisted the educational poverty, the boredom and the violence in the schools, Child Protective Services moved in Family Court to strip us of custody of our son and place him in a foster home, in an illegitimate trial without our being present or having an opportunity to present the circumstances from our perspective, so that the state could destroy and make pliable the mind of a gifted and talented child who intellectually stood in their way.
Because the Wiesbaden Public School Authority had no suitable school for a gifted and talented child, they together with the Child Protective Services impeded school registration into a normal school – they went so far as to disseminate negative information to private schools (a lengthy written correspondence record is available), aid money from the Hessian Ministry of Education in support of gifted and talented students is unknown and ignored in the Wiesbaden Public School Authority. In Wiesbaden it is not desirable to engage yourself in the education of your child; this is enforced by the state taking custody away from you and other violent compulsory measures.
Marian’s psychological assessment report and its recommendations from psychologist Mrs. Andrea Brackmann of Frankfurt am Main were completely ignored! She has written publications on gifted and talented children, and is recommended by the public school authority in Frankfurt am Main for the testing of gifted and talented children.
After we fled, the press politics of Child Protective Services, SPD and CDU began a discriminatory smear campaign and persecution including the most vulgar character assassination. Newspaper articles and press releases from CDU Bundestag member Kristina Köhler may be seen in the attachments.
Our situation in Iran is an emergency situation, because we are living off of support from our parents. Marian suffers from an asthma-like illness, and has health problems due to the extreme air pollution, as well as insurance and medical insurance coverage and other support services not being available here.
Our social benefits in Germany have been completely cutoff due to intervention of Child Protective services. The 75-year old father, sick with heart disease and diabetes, from Frankfurt am Main attempts to pay the rent for our apartment in Wiesbaden, so that all of our belongings are not tossed out into the street. Father has told me that he has received calls that we are being sought for child kidnapping. Child Protective Services with police have supposedly twice entered our apartment. Mr. Vu, who continues to look in on our old father was in our apartment to check on the fish in Marian’s Amazon basin (300 Liter Aquarium) and Platys (60 Liter). The Amazon fish, among them Marians favorite large diskus fish had long since died, and the apartment had a very bad smell. We suspect that the central power switch connecting to the pumps, heater, and the automatic feeder had been intentionally switched off by the Wiesbaden authorities, because the smaller hidden aquarium was still in good shape!
Two weeks before we fled we had been taking Marian to the Iranian embassy school in Frankfurt am Main every day because of German obligatory school attendance (80 km each way) (this was the only school which accepted our son), because the Wiesbaden Public School Authority refused to give us a timely assignment to a school. After we fled the police showed up at the school with the press, to take custody of Marian. But for all of this posturing, he was not allowed into the school!
I come from a Frankfurt civil servant family, and am a certified biologist, while my husband comes from an Iranian family of doctors (civil servants) and is a scientific colleague in pharmaceutical security. For this reason Marian and I both hold dual citizenship (Germany/Iran).
From Iran we contacted Mrs. Frau Lohff of the Clonlara Schools. She helped us locate an experienced attorney, who has already submitted complaints with the OLG Frankfurt. The Child Protective Services is responding with all imaginable lies and primitive thinking.
For our struggle with the German Mandatory School Attendance, and in our case with Child Protective Services of Wiesbaden, we are seeking organizations who can provide moral and financial support. We very much hope that by solidarity and a mutual struggle we can ensure free education for children in Germany, and that the persecution and torture of the affected families can be ended by understanding and awareness, because ensuring children’s rights belongs to the basic Human Rights in the world.
As things stand now, Germany is unworthy of membership in the European Community, or to speak on Human Rights in the international arena. The shadows of the Third Reich and the ideology of Adolf Hitler - if not worse - still drift over Germany.
We would be very pleased to hear from you soon. We can be reached at the following e=mail address for further information:
With friendly greetings,
Mahjoubi Assil Family
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