Germany has banned homeschooling, hybrid schools, and has tightened restrictions on private schools. German authorities wrote to the school that “the immediate enforcement of prohibitions is ordered”, preventing students from continuing their schooling there for the rest of the year.

The government has also fined the school 600 euros in administrative fees. Authorities stated that the school website was an “advertisement for a prohibited school”, and was ordered to be shut down.

The school is arguing that Germany is violating national and international human rights law – including parents’ rights to educate their children in accordance with their philosophical and religious convictions – with its ban on homeschooling, along with other restrictions on education. An urgent lawsuit to reopen the school is currently pending.

Since 2014, the education provider filed multiple times for accreditation for two additional hybrid schools based on the same pedagogical model.

Source: adfinternational.org