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Dutch education authorities announced they will compel 102 children who had been exempted from mandatory schooling for religious reasons and were being homeschooled to return to school. According to local outlets including NL Times on the 26th (local time), Hilbert Bredemeijer, The Hague’s deputy mayor for education, said the city will require those children to attend classes after the summer break.The 102 children had been educated at home under a legal provision that permits parents to seek exemptions from compulsory schooling for ideological or religious reasons. Last year, roughly 3,000 children across the Netherlands received exemptions under that rule. In The Hague, the number of children granted the exemption has quadrupled over the past five years.“These children have effectively disappeared from our sight,” Bredemeijer said. “Some may be receiving excellent instruction and forming friendships, but we can’t be sure because they are not properly supervised.”The decision follows a recent Dutch Supreme Court ruling that sharply narrowed the circumstances under which exemptions can be granted; officials are now considering abolishing the exemption system entirely. Last month, the court ruled that parents can claim the exemption only if a public school is not reasonably accessible — defined as no primary school within 6 km (about 3.7 miles) of the child’s home and no secondary school within 20 km (about 12.4 miles). The Hague says no child in the city lives that far from a public school.#Netherlands #Homeschooling #HomeEducation #ReligiousExemptions Yonhap News TV — inquiries and tips: KakaoTalk/LINE jebo23, Na Kyung Lee (nakyi@yna.co.kr)
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