German school refugees

Here is an article V pointed out to me about a German family that wanted to homeschool and had to get political asylum in the US to do it.

http://www.hslda.org/hs/international/Germany/201001260.asp

Some quotes from the article:
"rather than being concerned about the welfare of the children, the government was trying to stamp out parallel societies" -- I see this kind of sentiment a lot here in mainstream Germany. This also applies to unpopular religious organizations (not Catholic or Lutheran but "cults" like Jehovah's Witnesses who, in contrast, are not allowed to talk about their religion at work). Germany seems to want to force people to believe the same thing, and not have any dissenters, and is perusing this on the religious and education ends.

“This is simply about the German state trying to coerce ideological uniformity in a way that is frighteningly reminiscent of past history. Homeschooling is a growing social movement all over the world, and the Germans want to stamp it out based on a fabricated notion that homeschoolers are a ‘parallel society.’" -- ...

Also, there is the discriminatory side of this against non-Germans (not in this linked article). Turkish children suffer from lower expectations and marginalization, and we have heard first hand that teachers have "their own" kids to teach (German) and don't have time to teach "our" children (not German) even though they are in the same classroom.

Also, someone I know from Poland has privately told me that the only reason they will have to leave Germany in the next few years is because their children are getting close to school age and they don't want them in the German schools.

There are lots of things I like about living in Germany, but ignoring the problems won't help them go away. The public school system has been our biggest problem in living here and the " coerc[ion of] ideological uniformity" is frankly scary.