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10.09.15 First-grader Magali kept clinging to the heater in the mornings and screaming because she didn't want to go to school. In the end, her parents left her at home. Magali is now 14 and has been learning at home with her brother for many years - despite compulsory schooling. Jolanda (13) and her two sisters don't go to school either. Their parents believe that they should be able to develop freely and learn what and how they want. The children are given learning materials and support if they want - the rest is up to them. And if they don't do anything, that's OK too. 16-year-old Joy and her two brothers don't go to school either. Her parents think that's OK too: life teaches them what they need to know. Because schooling is compulsory in Germany, all three families are taking a big risk - in the worst case, their children could even be taken away from them. Magali and Jolanda's families could no longer bear this fear and moved to France. They no longer want to hide, keep their children indoors in the mornings, feel like they are being watched by neighbors and are afraid of being reported. Whether it is hip hop or piano lessons, soccer or theater - in all families the children are encouraged as best they can. But they are not taught, because the parents reject the German school system for their children. Only in Magali's family are there regular times when she and her brother learn what their peers are taught at school. Magali has now even decided to get her secondary school diploma. She wants to know whether she can do as much as her German friends who go to school. Menschen hautnah has accompanied three home-schooling families. Normal families with normal jobs, with a lot of time and commitment to their children and great trust in their natural abilities. But what do you learn without school? Enough for a degree or maybe even more? And how do the children get along without the friends that others make at school, without the daily interaction with their peers? Source http://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/dokument... See also this text: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/...