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High School Diploma

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High School Diploma Requirement- Americans Disability Act. Read more here:

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Seabrook New Hampshire ending compulsory government education?

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Seabrook New Hampshire Selectman puts forward a bill to basically end government school in Seabrook, New Hampshire

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Police State Schooling Vs Homeschooling/Unschooling

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To be homeschooled and/or unschooled is the way to promote freedom, sound knowledge, and a love of learning throughout life. Government police state schooling is the way to prepare unimaginative worker drones to dislike learning and to accept an authoritarian world that is unbeatable.

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School accused of putting autistic student in bag

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A 9-year-old autistic boy who misbehaved at school was stuffed into a duffel bag and the drawstring pulled tight, according to his mother, who said she found him wiggling inside as a teacher's aide stood by.

The mother of fourth-grader Christopher Baker said her son called out to her when she walked up to him in the bag Dec. 14. The case has spurred an online petition calling for the firing of school employees responsible.

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How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education

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How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education

Matthew Carpenter, age 10, has completed 642 inverse trigonometry problems at KhanAcademy.org.
Photo: Joe Pugliese

“This,” says Matthew Carpenter, “is my favorite exercise.” I peer over his shoulder at his laptop screen to see the math problem the fifth grader is pondering. It’s an inverse trigonometric function: cos-1(1) = ?

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Imagining the classroom of the future

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Found this post talking about what the classroom of the future might look like and loved how decentralized and non-state dependent it all was.

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Special Needs Student Bullied by teachers. Tapes them.

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Special Needs Student tapes two teachers who verbally abuse her. Leads to one teacher resigning and the other getting "mandatory bullying training".

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Texas schools rewrite history books to fit political ideology. (wtf?)

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Historians on Tuesday criticized proposed revisions to the Texas social studies curriculum, saying that many of the changes are historically inaccurate and that they would affect textbooks and classrooms far beyond the state's borders. The changes, which were preliminarily approved last week by the Texas board of education and are expected to be given final approval in May, will reach deeply into Texas history classrooms, defining what textbooks must include and what teachers must cover.

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Florida School District Puts Fingerprint Scanners on School Buses

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A county in Florida has installed fingerprint scanners in school buses. Described as “one of the most monumental things that Washington County has ever done” by an education bureaucrat, the machines have been used since the beginning of the school year.

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The Latest Crime Wave: Sending Your Child to a Better School

http://online.wsj.com

School districts hire special investigators to follow kids home in order to verify their true residences.

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