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Educational Freedom

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Susan Ryan blogs about educational freedom at Corn and Oil: “Some Americans are disturbed that Swedish homeschooling families are losing their right to educate their children at home. What a depressing notion turning into a reality, that children can and will be taken from their homes because they’re learning at home with their families....
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Sir Ken Returns to TED Talks

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Why don’t we get the best out of people? In one of the most popular TED Talks ever presented, Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. It’s a message with deep resonance. Now,...
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Truancy Lunacy

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In an article titled Truant students’ parents arrested on The Times Hearld website, District Judge Ester Casillo is quoted as saying “Once a citation for truancy is issued by this court, it is no longer a school issue but rather a court issue.” This sums up the lunacy – one institution tasked with an...
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Costly “Truancy Tickets” Keep LA Students at Home

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4,328 students were ticketed by the school police for being truant or late to school in 2008. An average of 24 students per day. The cost of the infraction for being absent is $250 the first time, and it can increase if you reoffend. In the last school year the LASPD obtained more than...
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Couple Arrested for Homeschooling in New York

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You have most likely read the headlines and seen the online articles. Arrests, charges, registration, approved curriculum, permission to homeschool – what’s next? To put it into perspective, I quote from an email by John Munson on the NYHEN Yahoo Groups list: I wouldn’t get too worked up over the use of the terms...
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Western Australia Cracking Down

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Father to face court for letting kids miss school The West Australian 5th July 2009 A father of six who believes youngsters should be set free from schooling has become the first parent in WA to go to court and face a fine for not sending his children to school. Mr Meier, also known...
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What Educational Studies don’t say…

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Not so fast: Home schooling trumps full-day kindergarten Jun. 18, 2009 The Globe and Mail Amira Elghawaby Research shows home-schooled kids outperform their public-school peers. So why so is there little or no financial encouragement for parents to take it on? Seated beside a mom with coiffed hair, polished nails and an elegant suit,...
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ND: Homeschool law changed

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North Dakota House Bill 1171 passed in the Senate with a 27-20 vote, after amendments to the House version. The passed House version (61 to 33) had no state supervision of homeschooling families. The Senate version requires that parents have at least a high school diploma or GED in order to homeschool with no...
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Daytime Curfew: Texas homeschoolers fight back

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Texas homeschoolers have been persistent. ht to Texan Susan Frederick, on the HEM-Networking list. Here are some articles on the recent rallies against daytime curfews in Dallas and Bedford City that were held this past week and linked in THSC‘s latest PAC news. Opponents of daytime curfew in Bedford plan rally today Star Telegram...
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