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There are no requirements for testing, curricular content, teaching methods, socialization, lesson plans, logs or reports, lists of goals or objectives, or teaching credentials. Homeschoolers are not required to use textbooks.
Homeschoolers in NJ have no scheduling or attendance requirements.
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AN ACT concerning home education 1 programs and supplementing Title 18A [...]
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Everyday Neglect, 5 August 2008, Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
When children die in the District, the public, politicians and the media get worked up over deficiencies in the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA). Brianna Blackmond is bludgeoned, or the decaying bodies of four young sisters are found: Officials are quick to react. What [...]
State task force: Home schools need monitoring, 29 June 2008, Rocky Mount Telegram, Rocky Mount, North Carolina
A state task force that examined the death of a 4-year-old boy who died in 2006 has called for more oversight for children taught at home.
The N.C. Department of Social Services made the recent recommendations in its report on [...]
The recent court decision in Kassel, Germany is part of a growing trend of child protection actions for thoughts, not just physical harm to a child. This has happened not only in Germany, but apparently, in other ‘western’ countries.
In the United States, authorities took over 400 children of the Yearning for Zion ranch [...]
Just over two years ago Sean Paddock died. He was four. His mother, the person who killed him using her interpretation of the advice given in the book To Train Up A Child, was found guilty of killing him. To Train Up A Child is a popular book in some homeschooling circles.
Adoptive mother convicted in son’s [...]
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Proposed homeschool restrictions draw criticism from across U.S., 5 June 2008, The Examiner, (via Google cache; please scroll down for article)
Calls from across the country have been flooding into the D.C. State Superintendent’s Office from families who are profoundly unhappy about the proposed restrictions on homeschooling.
The regulations have been a hot topic locally over the [...]
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Oregon Homeschooling-Don’t Ask Alice
Home school in the Willamette Valley
By Therese ONeill WillametteLive
If there remains one way to shock friends and family in an open-minded 21st century society, it is to tell them that you are considering home-schooling your children.
Home education is a burdened concept, calling to mind the odd classmate from high school that couldn’t make eye contact [...]
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