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At War With Home-Schoolers

First it was California declaring open war on home-school families. California passed a law providing that home-schooling is illegal unless the teacher in the home is certified to teach at the grade level being taught. Now Tennessee has joined the war. The State Board of Education has invalidated diplomas from religious based schools that are home-school affiliated.

The Tennessee Board of Education ruled that when a job requires a diploma, home school affiliated diplomas will be unacceptable. As Blue Collar Muse notes, home school students in Tennessee routinely perform better than public school students on standardized tests and in college. The Board claims it does not know what home school students are being taught, but with increased frequency studies show public school students do not learn what they are taught.

Inch by inch, state boards of education are trying to shut down alternatives to government schools. It is, however, pathetic that this should happen in Tennessee, a state not known as a hot bed of liberalism.

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Mr. Erickson is the managing editor at RedState.

[Dr. Sivana]

California passed a law providing that home-schooling is illegal unless the teacher in the home is certified to teach at the grade level being taught.

My understanding was that it was a low court ruling that has been set aside by the judge in question as part of a child treatment case (which is why it was under HSLDA radar until after the fact), NOT a law made by the CA assembly.

[Ingtar]

Inch by inch, state boards of education are trying to shut down alternatives to government schools. It is, however, pathetic that this should happen in Tennessee, a state not known as a hot bed of liberalism.

Mr. Erickson is apparently not familiar with the lock the Dims have on the state level structure. The Repubs are mostly emasculated.