http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/homeschoollist/ en-us Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:22:09 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520942/posts He wasn't able to get out to vote for himself, but lots of others did. And a prison inmate was elected to a school board Tuesday in southern California. Randy Hale received 831 votes, earning one of three open seats on the Romoland School Board, even though he's behind bars. Hale violated his parole after being convicted of spousal abuse and drug possession. He was returned to prison in September, and isn't due to be released until mid-February. His wife Penny says "this is wild." The district's superintendent says he's consulting lawyers to figure out how to handle the situation.... http://www.wtkr.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520942/posts#comment Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:22:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420025/posts Philly Schools to Require African History Class to Graduate NewsMax.com Wires Thursday, June 9, 2005 PHILADELPHIA -- City high school students will be required to take a class in African and African American history to graduate, a move that education experts believe is unique in the nation. The requirement in the 185,000-student district, which is about two-thirds black, begins with September's freshman class, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Thursday. The yearlong course covers subjects including classical African civilizations, civil rights and black nationalism, said Gregory Thornton, the district's chief academic officer. The other social studies requirements are American history, geography and... Newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420025/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:49:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1410198/posts My dear fellow homeschoolers and homeschool supporters. Over the last few years, I have been honored to have known you and have you as part of my homeschool ping list. However, over the last year or so, I have not been as faithful to ping you to news and information as I should have been. I've got two kids I'm homeschooling now and have been very busy. Someone has offered to take over the list and I'm so appreciative. DaveLoneRanger has graciously offered to assume the task. DLR, perhaps you could tell you a bit about himself? My friends, I... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1410198/posts#comment Wed, 25 May 2005 15:16:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350614/posts Teen boy, mother with baby had been arrested after confrontation with shouting, 'crazy' officer Not only have the charges against a South Carolina teenage boy and a homeschooling mother stemming from a confrontation with a plainclothes police officer been dropped, but the officer involved has been fired. The two were arrested – the boy for carrying a concealed weapon and the mother for assaulting a police officer – after the cop confronted the boy in a picnic shelter where a homeschool support group had gathered for socializing and play. As WorldNetDaily reported, the incident occurred at Simpsonville Park in Simpsonville,... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350614/posts#comment Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:06:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1349213/posts A homeschool group in South Carolina is beginning to raise funds to help defend two of its members – a teenage boy and a mother – who were arrested after a confrontation with a plainclothes police officer at a park. The incident occurred at Simpsonville Park in Simpsonville, S.C. last Wednesday. A group of mothers and children from Upstate Homeschoolers Unlimited were socializing and playing in the park – a common activity for homeschool support groups. After a call came in to police about someone in the park having a knife, a plainclothes policeman rushed into the picnic shelter where... worldnetdaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1349213/posts#comment Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:39:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339468/posts Homeschoolers in several states are faced with aggressive attempts to take away their freedom. HSLDA and homeschool families are fighting back. The majority of state legislatures have started their 2005 session, and not surprisingly the regulation of homeschooling has been a hot issue. Several states have introduced bills that would restrict the freedom to homeschool. Attempts to Impose State Assessments on Homeschools For example, both New Mexico and South Dakota filed bills that would force homeschool students to take state-selected standardized tests in the public school or under the supervision of a certified teacher. These bills violate a federal prohibition... HSLDA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339468/posts#comment Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:20:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333576/posts WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- In a new study of high school students ironically released the day after the historic democratic elections in Iraq, basic freedoms such as the freedom of speech and of the press found in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution were found to be unimportant to them. Commissioned by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and conducted last Spring by the University of Connecticut, the survey of 112,003 high school students, 327 principals, and 7,889 teachers from 544 public and private high schools found an ignorance concerning fundamental constitutional rights in the United States... GOPUSA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333576/posts#comment Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:35:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1328636/posts OCALA -- Two boys were arrested for making pencil-and-crayon stick figure drawings depicting a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, police said. The children, charged with a felony, were taken from school in handcuffs. The 9- and 10-year-old boys were arrested Monday and charged with making a written threat to kill or harm another person. They were also suspended from school. One drawing showed the two boys standing on either side of the other boy and "holding knives pointed through" his body, according to a police report. The figures were identified by written names or initials. Another drawing showed a... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1328636/posts#comment Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:20:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327518/posts PHOENIX (AP) -- A parental rights issue that pitted school officials against law enforcement advocates apparently is being settled with a compromise. A bill (SB1044) to give districts legal authorization to adopt notification policies -- policies that many districts already have adopted -- easily cleared the Senate K-12 Education Committee last week. The legislation, introduced by Republican Sen. Linda Gray of Glendale, comes a year after lawmakers failed in efforts to work out a compromise to deal with the conflicting concerns about parents' rights and effective law enforcement. Many districts had already adopted a long-standing policy recommended by the Arizona... ABCNews15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327518/posts#comment Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:15:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318875/posts   HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION   HOME SCHOOLING / INTERNATIONAL Germany January 7, 2005 "Homeschooling Illegal" Declares German School Official Seven homeschool families in Northwest Germany are being forced to enroll their children in public school. The Paderborn County school board has levied fines against these families and ordered the children to attend school by Monday, January 10, or the police will forcibly take them to school. Any resistance by the parents will result in the removal of these thirteen elementary age children from their homes and into state custody! Despite the lack of state recognition in Germany for... HSLDA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318875/posts#comment Wed, 12 Jan 2005 03:37:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316882/posts We have been discussing inexpensive ways to fast track kids through high school to avoid the liberal agenda: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315730/posts?page=84#84 The thread title was not well thought out, because some parents might instinctively skip over it due to attached stigma, whether real or imagined. Free Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316882/posts#comment Sat, 8 Jan 2005 22:35:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315730/posts I've been getting asked more and more about my position that high school is a waste of time and my recommendation for parents to give their children a choice to skip high school. This is in response to the liberal agendas now prevalent in high schools as well as the simple fact that such a strategy would give kids a 4 year head start on their peers. Below are some useful links for investigating this option. I will repost my own experience under that. http://parents.berkeley.edu/advice/school/equivexam.html UCB Parents Advice about School Taking the High School Equivalency Exam Advice and recommendations from... World Wide Web Links http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315730/posts#comment Fri, 7 Jan 2005 03:58:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316944/posts I was sitting at our neighborhood pool New Year’s morning, enjoying the great South Florida weather while trying to grind out a couple of chapters for my new book, when three high school girls took the chaise lounges next to me and started talking about their New Year’s Eve party with their high school mates. Seemingly still semi-drunk from the party, the 16- and 17-year-old girls began to recount how much coke, weed, vodka, guys and girls they did the night before. Listening to the F-bomb riddled report of the previous night’s peccadilloes left me thinking, how sad … and... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316944/posts#comment Sun, 9 Jan 2005 01:28:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307763/posts A 12-year-old New Hampshire boy who wanted to jolly up his junior high dance by dressing in a Santa suit instead got a lesson in political correctness when his Scroogelike principal turned the student away, fearing he might offend his classmates. Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307763/posts#comment Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:29:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1303469/posts A public school district in Texas has informed its students and parents of a ban on candy canes with religious messages, pencils with the name of Jesus inscribed on them, and -- of all things -- red- and green-colored decorations at holiday parties. That action has resulted in a pair of surprise gifts under the district's tree: a federal lawsuit filed by parents and students -- and an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. According to a press statement from the Plano, Texas-based Liberty Legal Institute, an "unconstitutional censorship policy" is being enforced by the Plano Independent School District.... Crosswalk News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1303469/posts#comment Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:53:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298256/posts On Hannity and Combs, Sean responded to the liberals keeping the declaration of independence out of the schools, by calling for parents to take thier kids out of government schools. Home school bump. fox news-hannity and combs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298256/posts#comment Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:49:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1287612/posts BREAKING NEWS The Associated Press Updated: 11:17 a.m. ET Nov. 24, 2004VALPARAISO, Ind. - A Valparaiso High School student used a knife to cut eight students at the start of school on Wednesday, police said. None of the injuries was believed to be life-threatening. The student who committed the attack was in custody and the school about 20 miles southeast of Gary had been placed on lockdown, Valparaiso police spokesman Michael Grennes said. "At this time, we've got a number of students who have been injured," Grennes told The Times of Munster. "They've all been transported to the hospital and... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1287612/posts#comment Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:28:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1282711/posts Nov 15 - Funding for a controversial Bush administration plan to submit the nation's school children to mental health testing and drug treatment may end up reaching the Senate floor this week, as GOP congressional leaders look to clear the legislative slate in order to set the table for George W. Bush's second term. The plan, called the New Freedom Initiative (NFI), is the keystone of a package of initiatives by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, a group of doctors and mental health care professionals established by the Bush Administration in 2002. The New Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1282711/posts#comment Thu, 18 Nov 2004 06:38:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1282770/posts (CNSNews.com) - The Pentagon's decision to stop U.S. military bases from sponsoring Boy Scout troops is another example of political correctness, according to the leader of a military watchdog group, and will hurt the Defense Department's recruitment efforts in the long run. Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, told CNSNews.comWednesday that with the Pentagon's new edict to military bases, a condition of settling a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the military is sending the wrong kind of message. "I don't think the Department of Defense should endorse that mindset (of the ACLU)... CNSNEWS.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1282770/posts#comment Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:42:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1281912/posts <p>PRING, Tex. - In front of her gated apartment complex, Courtney Payne, a 9-year-old fourth grader with dark hair pulled tightly into a ponytail, exits a yellow school bus. Moments later, her movement is observed by Alan Bragg, the local police chief, standing in a windowless control room more than a mile away.</p> new york times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1281912/posts#comment Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:33:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178932/posts Do you love your children enough to homes school them? Romans 1:32. Who, knowing the judgement of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. (Not only do these people sin themselves but they encourage and vicariously enjoy help others (our children) become involved in these sins of the flesh.) Soon the public school bell will once again ring and the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of our children will be molded by the secular, anti-Christian public school system. Last year a keynote speaker... Christian-news-in-maine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178932/posts#comment Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:13:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1184265/posts Almost 1.1 million students were home-schooled last year, their numbers pushed higher by parents frustrated over school conditions and wanting to include morality and religion with the English and math. The estimated figure of students taught at home has grown 29 percent since 1999, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, part of the Education Department. In surveys, parents offered two main reasons for choosing home schooling: 31 percent cited concerns about the environment of regular schools, and 30 percent wanted the flexibility to teach religious or moral lessons. Third, at 16 percent, was dissatisfaction with academic instruction at... AP via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1184265/posts#comment Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:32:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1184693/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - For more and more students, homeroom has become a room at home. Almost 1.1 million students were home-schooled last year, a 29 percent increase since the last government survey in 1999. The growth comes as more parents, frustrated with traditional schools and limits on curriculum, say they would rather handle lessons themselves. The estimated figure of students taught at home comes from parent surveys. The results were released Tuesday by the National Center for Education Statistics, part of the Education Department. Parents offered two main reasons for choosing home schooling: 31 percent cited concerns about the... My Way http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1184693/posts#comment Wed, 4 Aug 2004 11:22:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185134/posts MESA, Ariz. (AP) -- Maricopa County now has nearly 10,000 home-school students, about a 31 percent increase since 1999. It mirrors a national trend that saw the total number of home-school students rise in 2003 to about 1.1 million, according to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics. The center estimates that the number of home-school students nationwide has grown about 29 percent since 1999. Maricopa County registrars said parents have registered nearly 500 new home-school students since February. As of Tuesday, the county had 9,479 home-school students. Studies show that many home-school parents cite concerns about... News15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185134/posts#comment Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:06:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185136/posts Dear HSLDA members and friends: HSLDA Chairman and General Counsel Mike Farris is scheduled to appear on Fox News tomorrow, Thursday, August 5th at 11:40am ET. * The U.S. Department of Education's National Center of Education Statistics estimates that there were 1.1 million homeschool children in 2003. This is a 29% increase from the last NCES estimate of 850,000 in 1999. Everyone agrees that homeschooling is growing rapidly and homeschool graduates are succeeding in all walks of life. Homeschooling is a trend which is here to stay. Mike Farris plans to comment on the growth and success of homeschooling in... HSLDA email alert http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185136/posts#comment Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:08:14 GMT