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Home school student wins bee for second time

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:31:52 +0000

Joshua A. McFall’s victory in Monday’s Tribune Chronicle Scripps National Spelling Bee makes him the first back-to-back winner of the competition and has given his family multiple wins.

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Rule of education

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:52:25 +0000

For many of the homeschooling parents, it seemed more than a little hypocritical for a state that fails to ensure a credentialed teacher in each classroom - and is often slow to remove underperforming teachers - to impose its "standards" on families that have opted out of the system. Also, the argument that more state oversight is required for the best interests of the homeschooled children would seem to represent the height of audacity in a state with public schools that produce far too many dropouts and far too few students with the basic skills to cope in modern society.

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California Liberals on the Attack with Parents Who Home School

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:49:34 +0000

Being a new home schooler here in Texas for about four weeks now, it caught my attention, when someone on MySpace posted a topic regarding home schooling in California on an abortion debate board. Upon reading the link, provided by Focus on the Family, regarding the information about the new California legal opinion, I was shocked to find out that California Home School parents may actually be required to be licensed as a teacher in the state of California in order to home school their own children.

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Local Assemblyman Asks Court to Reverse Home-School Ruling

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:43:34 +0000

A San Diego County assemblyman is calling on the California State Supreme Court to reverse a controversial decision that requires parents to get teaching credentials if they home-school kids. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis has more.

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TITAN EDITORIAL: Ignorant education Written By An Ignorant Writer

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:37:52 +0000

Homeschooling advocates, headed mainly by Christian zealots, are calling for Gov. Schwarzenegger's protection of their fundamental right to teach their children to be bigots and idiots.

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Home school’s legality questioned, not independent study’s

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:32:19 +0000

A recent appellate court ruling in Southern California won't affect most of the students in Butte County being taught at home, said Butte County Superintendent of Schools Don McNelis.

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Home school parents seek policy changes

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:02:56 +0000

When an investigator from the state Department of Children and Families showed up at the Kains' Ridgefield home early last year, looking into charges of educational and emotional neglect, it left them fearful. They worried that after working so hard to create a better life for their children, the girls would be taken from them.

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Home school? It’s a lifestyle

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:37:53 +0000

"Home-school," replied a confident voice from the back seat. I looked back at the angelic face of my one and only. I wasn't so sure. My life was so chaotic - her father and I had separated, my part-time job as a college instructor was about to end unless I agreed to go full-time and I had an elderly mother in poor health. Little did I know those would later be fondly remembered as the "good old days."

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Home school ruling said ripe for challenge

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:27:16 +0000

A California appellate court ruling that said parents who home school their children must have teaching credentials may not be as sweeping as it first appeared, attorneys said Friday.

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Home School Convention facts:

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:26:20 +0000

The 20th Annual North Dakota Home School Association’s Home School Convention will be held Thursday through Saturday in the Alerus Center in Grand Forks.

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