Homeschool families in two different states are facing increased scrutiny from local officials that critics are calling an invasion of privacy. To make matters worse, local officials in Kentucky and Mississippi are making demands of homeschool families that could be ...
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Public School For Newborns?
A total of 15 states currently require children of kindergarten age to attend school – an idea that is controversial enough among many parents. One state, though, may take that a step further and give the state head of public ...
Read More »CPS Orders Homeschool Mom To Perform Blood Test – Then Seizes Child
Two young homeschooled children were taken from their mother because of a social worker’s improper reading of a blood test – and then kept in state custody for weeks even though the state’s own doctors said the children were perfectly ...
Read More »‘Messy’ House Gets Parents Tasered, Handcuffed … And Their Children Kidnapped By Police
A Sheriff and his deputy used pepper spray and a Taser on a Missouri couple in front of their young children while trying to seize the kids without a warrant, a federal lawsuit charges. The sheriff took the action because ...
Read More »What This Public School Told A Homeschool Family Likely Will Anger You
In a case that is just now becoming public, a Massachusetts couple found themselves facing truancy charges earlier this year because they chose to homeschool their sick son. The boy, Samuel (whose last name was not revealed), and his parents ...
Read More »State Snatches Children From Family, Exposes Them To Tuberculosis — And Then Ignores Boy’s Broken Ankle
A father and mother in Virginia say they experienced a nightmare at the hands of government social workers, who snatched their two children after opposing a doctor’s medical diagnosis, and then placed them in foster care – where the kids ...
Read More »Hospital Seizes Newborn From Mom And You Won’t Believe Why
A newborn baby was taken from a Pennsylvania woman by police and a social worker, and the mom is now speaking up. The mom, Jodi Ferris, recounted the story in a podcast newly posted on the Home School Legal Defense Association’s website. The social worker and ...
Read More »Group Fears Common Core Will Result In National Student Database
Common Core is a highly controversial public education initiative which has led many to fear that national data on students and families will be collected by the federal government – a charge that the nation’s leading home school legal organization ...
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