Helen on June 30th, 2009

Reading through the current issue of Education Revolution, I found an interesting article by Elana Davidson titled “Moving Beyond Age Discrimination,” with this highlighted quote:
“Children are the only classification of citizens in our society against whom discriminatory abuse is not only legal, but actually encouraged and carried out by laws themselves.”
What is age discrimination? The [...]

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Helen on September 13th, 2007

Our news editor, Valerie, has posted notes about curfew issues around the country. We’ve run a bit on curfews at this HEM site, but I’m taking this opportunity to begin a collection for anyone seeking information about this subject:
Taking Charge: Curfews and Homeschoolers
An Open Letter About Curfews
“You Wanna Do What To My Kid?”
Truancy, Curfews, and [...]

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Helen on September 27th, 2006

Our friend Susan Ryan also comments on an Ohio curfew situation: Corn and Oil » Legal Group may no longer have a problem¦
She writes, “if a daytime curfew is approved, homeschoolers will have to prove that they’re homeschoolers when they’re out and about. And that just seems wrong to me.”
Seems wrong to us too.

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