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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Dad describes family's flight from 'persecution'

A family that fled to the United Kingdom because of the German government's crackdown on homeschooling has told a British newspaper of the intolerance they left behind.
"It feels like persecution," Klaus Landahl told The Observer in London. "We had to get to safety to protect our family."
WND reported when the Landahl family fled to England because the mayor in their town, Altensteig, which has a sister-city promotional relationship with Butte, Mont., launched a court action aimed at giving custody of their children to the state.
Officials with Netzwerk-Bildungsfreiheit, an education advocacy group in Germany, confirmed then that Klaus and Kathrin Landahl and their five children, including four of school age, had reached "safety in England."...

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