Back in February of this year, the Blaze reported the following:
In Sweden, homeschooling is severely frowned upon. In fact, unless there’s a viable reason, it is virtually impossible for parents to educate their children at home.
...School authorities came to the home of Rabbi Alexander Namdar and his wife Leah on Jan. 26 to serve the family with a notice, reports say. Four of the couple’s children are currently studying online at an international school. If the family does not comply and immediately begin to send them to government-run educational facilities, they will be fined the U.S. equivalent of $2,400 per week.
Continue reading: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/swedish-officials-threaten-to-fine-jewish-parents-2400-per-week-for-homeschooling-their-children/
WND in now reporting "Embattled homeschoolers claim victory."
Citing the rights of religious freedom and home education, a Swedish appeals court ruled unanimously that homeschooling parents in Gothenburg are allowed to educate their children at home in line with their faith.
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“For us, we’re tremendously happy – thank God, thank God – that the judge had the sensitivity and intuition to understand,” mother Leah Namdar told WND.
“The bedrock of a healthy society is belief in God, and one of the challenges in Sweden in general is the sense of many, many people in the country living without belief in God,” she said, adding that the ruling reflected respect for people’s religious needs.
Read full article: http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/embattled-homeschoolers-claim-victory/
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