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_Published 2019-01-10. The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday rejected the appeal of a German couple who have been fighting for years to home school their kids_


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## Transcript

A German couple's appeal to home school their children has been rejected by the European Court of Human Rights in a unanimous decision. For years, Dirk and Petrick Wunderlick had been battling for the right to provide their kids with home schooling, which is illegal in Germany. But the court, which is based in France, upheld previous rulings. Saying that the government didn't act improperly in its actions. which included temporarily removing their four kids from home in 2013. The couple had argued that state authorities violated their rights to privacy of home and family life. After years of paying regulatory fines for refusing to register their eldest in school in 2005- A family court placed the right to determine where their children lived and went to school in the hands of a youth office in 2012.

The following year, the kids were removed from the home for three weeks, with the court suggesting, their father insinuated, he considered to be the property of their parents. While there was concern that the children had no contact outside of the Family and that their physical integrity was at risks the kids were return four weeks later as their knowledge level was not consider alarming and the parents agree to let them attempt school. The attorney Robert Court of US best [ UNKNOWN ] legal entity group call the alliance defending freedom so they may appeal again.

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