Homeschooling Asylum-Seekers Facing Deportation from US: ‘I Stand Against It in Jesus Name’
Germany has some of the harshest punishments for homeschooling in the world. So, when Uwe and Hannelore Romeike decided in 2006 that God was calling them to homeschool their five children, the German government levied fines greater than the family’s income, and the parents risked losing custody of their children. But the Romeikes could see that German public school was damaging their children. Uwe told CBN news there were “fights at school, pressure, bullying, Lydia had stomach and headaches and Daniel was all withdrawn after just one year of being at public school. So that was already reason enough for us to start homeschooling.” The Romeikes fled Germany in 2008, seeking asylum in the United States. After a series of legal battles, their asylum request was denied, but in 2013 the Obama Administration granted them “indefinite deferred action status.” They could stay in the U.S.
