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Terror Threat Teacher Gets Probation

KSL News Radio 1160 (UT)

November 24, 2004

A former Bountiful Junior High math teacher was sentenced to a year of probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of harassment.

Wariner was accused of saying on May 27th that she would bring a loaded shotgun to school and shoot the principal and others if she were not given certain classes.

No tolerance for zero tolerance

The Cincinnati Enquirer

by Andrea Tortora

November 24, 2004

Expert: It can be harmful

The expanding web of zero tolerance policies spreading from schools to the juvenile justice system creates a culture in which children are demonized for being children while increasingly being punished as adults, national children's law experts said Friday.

LaHaye Condemns U.S. Public Education; Home Educators Concur

Agape Press

by Jim Brown and Jenni Parker

November 24, 2004

Experts Try to Dispel Common Home Schooling Myths

Dr. Tim LaHaye, says evangelical pastors who advocate sending their Christian youth to public schools are "philosophically out to lunch." He says those pastors and other Christian leaders who look favorably on public education "don't understand the worldview of the secular humanists that's being taught" in U.S. public schools.

Home-school marchers going away for holidays

The Muskegon Chronicle

by Susan Harrison Wolffis

November 24, 2004

For 160 members of the Northern Lights Home School Marching Band of West Michigan, there'll be no turkey and dressing at grandma's house this year.

The band and flag corps members -- who range in age from 8 to 18 -- will be strutting down the avenue in Philadelphia in the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade Thursday.

Law of the Land - Is Declaration of Independence unconstitutional?

World Net Daily

November 23, 2004

School district sued for censoring founding documents, state constitutions

In a season typified by lawsuits against manger scenes, crosses and even the words "Merry Christmas," a California case is taking the "separation of church and state" one step further ' dealing with whether it's unconstitutional to read the Declaration of Independence in public school.

NMAA surveying members about home-school participation

kobtv.com

November 23, 2004

The New Mexico Activities Association will ask member schools to decide whether charter school or home-schooled students can participate in NMAA athletics.

Several groups throughout the state have asked the governing board for high school athletics and activities to allow home-schooled and charter school students to be allowed to participate.

Farah: 'Just Say No' to Government-Run Schools

Agape Press

by Jim Brown

November 22, 2004

Opponents of public schools are meeting in the nation's capital to advocate what they call the "extinction of government schools." Those in attendance heard a Christian journalist and radio talk-show host tell them that home-schooling families are the van

Get the kids out of harmful schools and into honest education." That is the theme of SepCon 2004, sponsored by the Alliance for the Separation of School and State. Alliance founder Marshall Fritz admits the movement is very small -- but he has high hopes for the group's current effort.

Abusing homeschoolers

World Net Daily

by Vox Day

November 22, 2004

The number of confirmed sexual abuses committed by educational personnel represents almost a quarter of the total cases of all abuses accurately reported by educational personnel.

Teachers simply don't make for very reliable reporters. Educational personnel were the single most likely group to make unsubstantiated claims of child abuse. Their 179,098 unsubstantiated claims represented 17.1 percent of all such claims

Truant Policy: After Kids, Parents or Cash?

News With Views

by Ron Lee

November 12, 2004

Students in the District 7 public school system are not attending classes as they should.

In the 2003 - 2004 school year 1,424 students missed 14 days or more of school. Of this 1,424, 200 missed 34 or more days. 100 of the biggest offenders were in high school.

Doctors Group Opposes Mandatory Mental Health Tests for Kids

News Max

by Dave Eberhart

November 11, 2004

Under new law being considered, the federal government would require that every child in America undergo psychological screening and receive recommended treatment, including drug therapies.

Next week the Senate re-convenes to consider an omnibus appropriations bill that includes funding for grants to implement mandatory universal mental health screening for almost 60 million children, pregnant women, and adults through schools and pre-schools.

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