Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Only Islamic High School in Amsterdam to Close; About 90 Parents Plan to Teach Children at Home

The Dutch News website reports today (April 6, 2011) that nearly all the children attending Amsterdam's only Islamic secondary school have found a new school to go to when it closes this year.

Parents of some 90 of the children affected had declared they planned to teach their children at home, leading city council officials to threaten them with legal action.

Home schooling is illegal in the Netherlands, unless parents can prove there is no school that fits their beliefs within 20 kilometers.

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