Political Asylum for German Homeschoolers

Robert Kunzman (who earlier proposed testing of homeschoolers) talks about the recent political asylum case with the German family. Kunzman spent at least 2 years studying homeschool families and their motivations for a book.
Via Beacon Broadside. (Special thanks to Jessie for alerting me to this.)

Homeschooling’s phenomenal growth in the United States has attracted the attention of policymakers and politicians in recent years. Now homeschooling threatens to cause an international scene—or at least some uncomfortable moments—between the U.S. and Germany. The news that a Tennessee immigration court granted political asylum to a homeschool family from Germany had been making the rounds in homeschool circles for several weeks, but immigration officials’ decision to appeal the ruling earned it notice in this week’s New York Times. Read more…