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Homeschool Regulation

Homeschool Regulation

According to this news report from New Jersey: “Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle will introduce legislation to regulate the home schooling of children. This comes on the heels of a recent investigation by the State Department Of Children And Families into the tragic may death of eight-year old Christiana Glenn of Irvington. “Christiana died of...
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UN Children’s Rights

CBS News’ Political Hotsheet has an article about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: 31 GOP Senators Oppose U.N. Children’s Rights Convention by Brian Montopoli – 36 comments Thirty-one Republican senators are cosponsoring a resolution opposing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, according to the conservative...
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It’s Not the Homeschooling, ctd.

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Homeschooler Jamie Rhodes has her Viewpoint published: Parents choose to homeschool for a variety of reasons by Jamie Rhodes. This is in response to the editorial, article and letters calling for stricter homeschool guidelines and laws. There are many points of view, however the general theme seems to be that public institutions offer a...
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And Michael Pearl Laughs… Ctd.

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Mommy Life – Growing outrage at Michael Pearl and his response to child’s death I think it’s a scandal when a man who last year raked in 1.8 million from Christian parents sincerely seeking to improve their parenting skills is revealed to be a man of pride, arrogance, and contempt for others. Michael Pearl...
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And Micheal Pearl Laughs…

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You have probably read the text of Michael Pearl’s Laughing Note on Facebook, “It has come to my attention that a vocal few are decrying our sensible application of the Biblical rod in training up our children. I laugh at my caustic critics, for our properly spanked and trained children grow to maturity in...
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Bring Back the Boycott!

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Bring Back the Boycott!

Paradise Post reported on Feb. 18th that the Butte County District Attorney’s Office was examining the ministry, No Greater Joy Ministry in connection to 7 year-old Lydia Schatz’s death. The Paradise Post has recently published a follow up piece, Questions about ministry grow, the district attorney talks of Michael and Debi Pearl and their...
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Paradise couple face murder, torture charges

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Another sickening case of abuse, this time in the local news in California: vidence suggests the girl who died was being disciplined “for hours” last Friday in the parent’s bedroom for mispronouncing a word during a home-school reading lesson. When police searched the family’s Crestwood Drive residence, they took a photograph of a 15-inch...
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Phoenix couple indicted in child abuse case

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The Associated Press has picked up on an abuse case involving “home-schooling”: PHOENIX — Authorities say a grand jury has indicted a Phoenix couple on child abuse charges involving their 14-year-old daughter. Police say the malnourished girl was locked in a bathroom without running water for two months, beaten with metal rods and forced...
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Child abuse in Czech Republic prompts minister to call for increased home ed controls

Czech minister wants home education law to be tightened, 20 May 2007, Ceske Noviny.cz Czech Education Minister Dana Kuchtova (Green Party) said the law on home education has loopholes and should be tightened, in the Questions of Vaclav Moravec discussion programme on public Czech Television today. … Kuchtova said the loopholes in the law...
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Tragic, but probably statistically inevitable

I’m conflicted as to whether to post such news accounts. On the one hand, the article has a homeschool aspect. On the other, it isn’t ‘about’ homeschooling. The crime has nothing to do with homeschooling, any more than crimes perpetrated by people who either went to school, or are still in school. Heaven knows...
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