Schooling in Germany
- End of the 90′s the twelve tribes came to Osterholz -Scharmbeck, in Germany.
- Afterwards they lived in Oberbronnen,( BadenWürttemberg) From there they went to Klosterzimmern Bavaria.
- From 1997-2006 the children didn’t go to the school. They had homeschooling.
- Homeschooling is not allowed in Germany. In Germany is compulsory schooling.
- All complaints about the homeschoolingprohibition , which were filed in Germany for religious reasons in courts, have failed.
- In this article from 2002 can be read:
- Anger with the authorities
- The members of the Twelve Tribes don`t let their children go to school. They don`t want children to be influenced by the spiritual influences and currents of this time.
- Kolev, 45, with the civil name of Klaus Schüle, was already two days in prison, when the group still lived in Oberbronnen in Baden-Württemberg. He had not sent the oldest of his six children to school
- http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/endzeit-apostel-mit-liebe-durch-die-apokalypse-a-221504-2.html
- 2004 There is no end to the dispute over school education.
- 7 fathers need 6-16 days into prison.
- The sum of the fines is 150000 €.
- http://www.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/schule/zwoelf-staemme-sieben-vaeter-widerstandslos-verhaftet-a-323695.html
- From 2006, the Twelve Tribes may legally teach. This is an emergency solution, says the Kultusminesterium.
- http://www.focus.de/familie/schule/bildungspolitik/schulpflicht/legaler-unterricht-der-glaubensgemeinschaft-hintergrund-zwoelf-staemme_id_2507230.html
- The permission to teach is seen critically by some people.
- Simone Tolle, the educational speaker from the politics “Bündnis 90 die Grünen”, considers the agreement with the “Twelve Tribes” more than questionable. She says: “It can not be in the interests of children and young people that the state creates doubtful free spaces for religious communities in which they can choose themselves what their children should learn and what not.
- http://www.gruene-fraktion-bayern.de/themen/zwoelf-staemme-gruene-fordern-bericht
- 2007: One qualified school graduation
- 2008: One qualified school graduation
- 2009: No qualified school graduation , because no pupils
- were in the 9th class.
- 2010 7 qualified school graduation
- 2011: No graduation, because no pupils
- were in the 9th class.
- 2012: No qualified school graduation . Registrations have been reversed.
- 2013: No qualified school graduation because no registration was made.
- http://www.gruene-fraktion-bayern.de/sites/default/files/17_0000312.pdf
- The school was closed in 2013/2014.
- The school has no trained teachers and there is a “commandment” of the faith community to chastise the children with a rod. The school is closed.
- http://www.kostenlose-urteile.de/VG-Augsburg_Au-3-S-142_Schulbetrieb-der-Glaubensgemeinschaft-Zwoelf-Staemme-untersagt.news17581.htm
- https://openjur.de/u/749274.html
- 2014 the dispute over the compulsory education is repeated.
- http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/noerdlingen/Zwoelf-Staemme-verweigern-sich-erneut-der-Schulpflicht-id29860412.html
- ” The compulsory education is not negotiable!”
- http://www.gruene-fraktion-bayern.de/themen/integration-und-migration/integration/zwoelf-staemme-schulpflicht-ist-nicht-verhandelbar
- This will be a topic in the Bavarian parliament.
- http://www.gruene-fraktion-bayern.de/themen/integration-und-migration/integration/zwoelf-staemme-schulpflicht-ist-nicht-verhandelbar
- 2016: The Twelve Tribes are leaving Germany
- http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/noerdlingen/Zwoelf-Staemme-verlassen-aus-diesen-beiden-Gruenden-Deutschland-id35317707.html