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It should be illegal for kids to not be in school, but since it involves a "migrant background" (or some other factor) that makes it ok? Seems like lack of enf

• _Microft 5y ago
  There is compulsory education in Germany, even for foreign children. I have not heard of any exemption to that.
• southerntofu 5y ago
  I'm not sure mandatory indoctrination is a healthy sign for society. Study-at-home was rather strong in France historically, due to public schools being so reactionary and authoritarian (or on the other side of the political spectrum, due to teaching sexual education and evolution), and there was an entire public institution (CNED) dedicated to that. However in the past decades, the government's attack on home schooling has coincided with the introduction of more and more nationalist/racist doctrine in public schools. Don't get me wrong, i'm strongly in favor of public education, as long as it's in the interest of the children (for example Montessori methods) but public schools in much of the world are the exact opposite of that.