Moment of shock in the case of a mother from Lower Austria who teaches her children at home. On Monday, police knocked on the family’s door and took their two younger children, aged 14 and 11, with them. “Detention proceedings have been going on for eight years, I didn’t think it would come to this,” the 44-year-old tells krone.tv indignantly.
The mother of three children – the eldest child is 18 years old – has been homeschooling her children for eight years. “We were part of the Freilernern from the very beginning.” She and her children rejected the external investigation. What followed were administrative sanctions that were accepted. Because the children do not attend school, the mother – like many other affected parents – is accused of endangering the child’s well-being.
Two weeks ago, a judge and youth care agency visited the family at home to get an idea of the situation. “I really thought she understood that we were fine,” said the mother. You had two weeks to make an assessment. Then the 44-year-old was shocked on Monday: “There were at least ten people at the door. Four to five police officers, people from youth care and the bailiff.” The children were taken to a crisis intervention center.
Psychological report without a visit
A dispute with the father of the children, with whom the children hardly want to have contact, should also play a role, according to the mother. “There was a psychological report in which the expert never saw the children,” the mother explains. The father of the children wants the children to go to school. “The report sounds like it was spoken by the father.”
“The children are well integrated into our community, the middle one wants to become a firefighter. What is happening here is impossible for me to realize because it is so crazy,” said the Lower Austrian. In an interview with krone.tv, she explained that she now drives to her children as quickly as possible, although this is not allowed. The mother was also told that she could now appeal to another authority.
Source: Krone
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