Thanks for your kind words.

The url I gave above will now work as well.

I should have said educatinggermany.7doves.com (without the ‘www’) though!

Kind regards
Kinderlehrer

By the way, the link you posted above didn’t work for me. Here is how I got to your site: http://www.7doves.com

Jennifer

I have been impassioned by Melissa’s plight – the latest in several over the last short while. Although I am ‘only 1′ I wanted to try and support home education reform in Germany.

I felt I could do this with a blog http://www.educatinggermany.7doves.com.

My aim is to provide a forum for english-speaking people worldwide to
understand the main arguments so they can effectively lobby those that are in positions to respond, internationally and within Germany, to legalise home education.

I do hope you visit!

Just yesterday I was harassed (once again) by a mafia like organization called
the GEZ (http://www.gez.de). The supposed purpose of this organization is to
issue television/radio licenses and “collect fees.” Despite the fact that
I don’t care to watch or listen to commercial broadcasting– hence I posses
neither a television nor radio– and that I have responded more than once to
their letters as well as have had let them in to my home to “control” my
living environment, they Stijl seem to insist on paying regular “shakedown”
visits. After informing the GEZ’s “thug” once more that I considered such
visits a form of harassment and a violation of my privacy, he once again
insisted it was the “law.” This may seem on the surface to be a minor
infraction, but as previously mentioned I’ve already experienced 15 years
of similar treatment from various similar organizations who seem to insist
that everyone is guilty until proven innocent.

I must say though the situation in the West (geographical as opposed to the
former political East and West) of Germany is much better than in Bavaria.
Even the Germans outside of Bavaria refer to Bavarians as Bazis
(Short for Bavarian and Nazi). Probably the worst of all are the cities of
Nuremberg and Fuerth. The city of Fuerth has even gone as far as to
have given it’s highest honor Ehrenburger (Honored Citizen)
to Henry Kissinger http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB104/index.htm.

About 6 months ago, the city of Fuerth sent the Cripo to confiscate my
books. To do so they not only broke into my flat, but the neighbor’s flat
(also a foreigner) as well. They seem to be under the impression that because
I don’t earn very much money (mostly because of restrictions which they
themselves have placed upon me over the years), I must be hiding or laundering
money. Although they weren’t able to find any evidence to convict me, they
are still holding on to my books and they have made no indication as to when
they will be returned. What this means is I have already missed the deadline
to report the last quarterly tax deadline for 2006 and it’s just a matter of
days before the Finanzamt (Tax Office) will (once again) start with the next
round of harassment. So instead of spending my time trying to earn enough
money to survive, I’ll be spending late hours and weekends answering their
letters which are written using a form of German which even native speaking
German’s have difficulty with.

I would like to tell you the entire history of what I have experienced since I
have been here but it would take way too long. Besides– for the most serious
offenses– this isn’t the right forum. I would like to elaborate on one thing
however. It’s what I call the “Uebermensch syndrome.” Namely a form of arrogance
which takes form in a German belief that they are superior to
everyone else. They seem to believe that– with enough logic– they can
justify “any behavior as appropriate” regardless of how it may make you feel
as a “person.”