The Lengths One Goes to Homeschool

I have been researching homeschooling for sometime now but I never imagined that I’d ever see a story like this one. The Romeikes actually moved from Germany to the United States so that they could continue to homeschool their kids since it is illegal in Germany. The family has not been granted political asylum but what I like about this story is that it highlights a few things we take for granted. First, in the twenty-first century I think we have become so spoiled at having things handed to us that we tend to forget how lucky we are to have certain freedoms and one of those is how to raise our kids. In the US, we take it for granted that homeschooling is a viable option, but it’s not. There are many such options we have taken for granted and really it would be nice to people to sit back and just appreciate what we do have here and then hopefully get it back on track to what this nation was intended to be. Currently, it appears as if we just take things for granted not realizing that they are in fact a blessing. I was reading my daughter’s social studies book yesterday and honestly I think we have forgotten why people went to great lengths to move to the US in the first place. Fortunately, people like the Romeike’s continue to remind us how grateful we ought to be for the freedoms we take for granted.

Let me add here that I do know that the Romeike’s also bring forth the whole issue of political asylum and whether or not homeschooling falls into that category of what traditionally people who are granted political asylum go through. My post is not about that, I don’t know if this will bring forth a flux of people using homeschooling as a way to “flee” their countries – and most like this may be overturn because it pails in comparison to those stories we hear of true “torture.” For me, I just wanted to stress the importance education is and the lengths one family is going.