Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their five children immigrated to the United States in 2008 because homeschooling in Germany is illegal.

At Home with Homeschoolers

The Romeikes of Morristown, Tenn., fled their native Germany to maintain the right to teach their children at home

Photographs by Carl Kiilsgaard / Getty Images for TIME

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