Planterhouse ~ About

Our Director

Tina Liedle spent many of her school-age years in Europe, where she was involved with various types of music and dance. Her college and early adult years were spent in California, focused on music, dance, stage performance, and education, where she also worked as a classroom teacher and curriculum developer.

Moving to Denver, in 1982, Tina began homeschooling and working to create a friendly legal climate for home education. She began organizing classes and events, incorporating music, dance and other cultural and historical elements. Her 6 children are now in their teens, twenties, and thirties.

The Liedle family has been the core of an international performance team, which, over the years, has been based in three different states: Colorado, Georgia, and Arizona. In August, 2011, they returned to Colorado to establish their home and business in Castle Rock.

Performers

Our team is comprised of an experienced, award-winning, professional group of folk dancers, keeping alive the folk traditions of our European heritage… Read More »

Education

Our performers have given hands-on workshops and performances at private and public schools throughout Europe and the US.

Where we’ve taught throughout Europe and the US

Summer School Programs
Highland Games
Living History Museums
Historic reenactments
Conventions & Conferences
Churches
Schools
- Public Schools
- Private Schools
- Christian Schools
- Magnet Schools
- Elementary Schools
- International Business Schools
- Colleges
- Community Colleges
- European Private Schools
- US Home Education Conferences
- European Home Education Conference
- Home Education Groups

Highland Games

Planterhouse created a hands-on education area for the 2011 Phoenix Highland Games.

Freedom in Education

Germany & The Netherlands

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Our group met with hundreds of German students and with the directors of private schools, discussing practical ways to make it possible for families to educate their children according to their conscience, through umbrella schools and other alternatives. We also met with home educators in various settings, including speaking and performing at a home education conference in The Netherlands.

Parental Rights

Switzerland

Swiss parents are rapidly losing the right to direct the lives and activities of their young children; the laws marching ever closer to a goal of mandatory child care. We worked with parents and business leaders to defeat one such aggressive political measure.

We communicated with American legislators and attorneys (as well as German families and private schools) before our tour, exploring ways that we could help.

Resolutions and endorsements from the Georgia state government were prepared and hand-delivered by the Chalet Dancers (under the tour name The Highländlers) to German state and federal officials under the direction of German nationals. We were very honored to have had the personal attention and counsel of the leading attorneys (including Mike Donnally of HSLDA) who deal with these legal issues in Germany as we assisted in coordinating and implementing this effort.

Georgia HR 850 was delivered to:

The Federal Government of Germany
The State of Berlin, Germany
The State of Bavaria, Germany
Den Haag, The Netherlands

Read Georgia House Resolution 850 »

In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist – and then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist – and then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew – and then… they came for me… and by that time there was no one left to speak up.
Martin Niemöller

Articles

Our tour to Europe appeared in articles on WorldNetDaily and HSLDA: