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Youth suspended over sketch of gun

World Net Daily (AZ)

August 22, 2007

Officials say drawing by teen 'absolutely considered a threat'

A 13-year-old boy has been suspended for three days by an Arizona public school because he sketched a picture that resembled a gun, something school officials said they "absolutely" believed could pose a threat.

Homeschoolers succumb to government money

World Net Daily (AK)

by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld

November 4, 2006

Why not use online technology to tap into a market that no one else in public education was serving: the homeschool student?

And thus IDEA was born. The plan was to entice homeschoolers with a package of goodies, including computers, plus a cash allotment for non-religious educational materials.

Guarantee of parents' rights sought in California

World Net Daily

by Ron Strom

July 16, 2011

Constitutional amendment seen as fighting pro-'gay,' diversity education

Diversity or tolerance education programs that focus on preventing verbal harassment, threats and violence against students are not "sex education" or "family life" programs within the meaning of the California Education Code. Parents do not have a right to receive notice about or to opt their children out of such programs. ...

Baptist activists: Pull kids out of school

World Net Daily

by Ron Strom

July 16, 2011

Resolution urges members to reject government education

A resolution supporters hope will make it to the floor of the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting next month calls on the millions of members of the denomination to pull their kids out of government schools and either homeschool them or send them to Christian schools.

Homeschoolers vs. Big Brother

World Net Daily

by Michelle Malkin

July 16, 2011

New Jersey's child-welfare system, like most state child-welfare systems, is a corrupt and deadly mess. Children are lost in the shuffle, shipped to abusive foster homes, returned to rapists and child molesters, and left to die in closets while paperwork

Last week, a Democratic assemblywoman introduced a bill that would impose annual academic testing and annual medical exams on homeschooled students in the Garden State. Never mind a federal law that prohibits states from requiring that homeschoolers take the state assessment designed for public-school students. And never mind the fact that no public- or private-school students are subject to such health regulations. The State Board of Education would be given unprecedented regulatory authority over homeschoolers.

The real reason the state opposes homeschooling

World Net Daily

by Michael Arnold Glueck, M.D., and Robert J. Cihak, M.D.,

July 16, 2011

In several states, such as California and Illinois, educrats are threatening parents with court action if they don't allow officials to intrude into their homes and evaluate their programs beyond the authority of state law. The game gets rough. In Illinois, according to the Chicago Tribune, truant officers arrive in police cars, bearing letters telling parents to come to "pretrial hearings" At least one officer told a parent "we can take your children away."

School districts accomplices to sex abuse

World Net Daily

by Jon Dougherty

July 16, 2011

Pro-life group advises administrators about reporting teen girls' activity

A pro-life organization that has accused Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers of hiding child abuse says school districts that refer girls to such services also may be culpable.

Christmas in America becomes battleground

World Net Daily

by Joe Kovacs

July 16, 2011

As holiday traditions draw national controversy, believers, pagans grapple over Jesus' inclusion

Are atheists correct that the very day set aside by hundreds of millions across the world to honor the birth of their Savior is merely a relic of sun worship' And if it is, why would some schools ban it' And even if today's holiday traditions have their roots in heathen practices, should Christians who wish to be true to their faith take part'

Homeschoolers find intact dinosaur skeleton Scientist says 22-foot animal likely died during cataclysmic flood

World Net Daily

by Evolution Watch

July 16, 2011

"A dinosaur fossil expedition for home educators has excavated a large, rare, intact allosaurus..."

Let's debate

World Net Daily

by Elizabeth Farah

July 16, 2011

Editorial calls for all a debate. Farah's provacative declaration begins with this sentence, "All parents who are married and have no extraordinary circumstances to prevent them, should today remove their children from the government school system - one of you two should stay home with them...."

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