Free Talk Live - homeschooling

FEDS: HOMESCHOOLING NOT FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT

autonomous — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:53:44 +0000

German Christian family could have children taken away in desire to immigrate into America to be able to homeschool. Justice Dept. arguing that homeschooling is not a fundamental right.

Eric Holder Banning Homeschooling Doesn’t Violate Fundamental Rights

iamodd999 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:14:51 +0000

Those of that homeschool should be concerned because the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, in the government’s arguments essentially said that he believes that a law that bans homeschooling would violate no fundamental liberties.

Want To Tell The State To Stick It? Homeschool Your Kids

iamodd999 — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:32:45 +0000

This notion that the children belong to the state, that their education must be provided for by the state … is inimical at every step to liberty.” – J. Gresham Machen
The swelling legions of homeschoolers poke a subtle rebuke at America’s ever expanding nanny state.

Two 6 Year Olds Suspended for Finger Guns at Recess

snowdog2012 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:14:48 +0000

Two 6-year-olds were suspended from White Marsh Elementary School in Talbot County on Monday for using their fingers as imaginary guns while playing a game of cops and robbers on the playground at recess.

Homeschoolers Flee Persecution in Germany and Sweden

phonon — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:46:13 +0000

Two leaders in the European home education movement, a father from Sweden and a German mother, drew tears from the audience as they told a packed conference room about life in exile and the heart-rending decision to flee abroad. While each of their stories was unique, both parents were forced to escape from their homelands due to relentless government persecution when they refused to stop homeschooling.

Police State Schooling Vs Homeschooling/Unschooling

AlaskanSalmon — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:52:53 +0000

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.

Unschoolers learn what they want, when they want

Cyphase — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:34:52 +0000

Ricci is professor of alternative learning at Nipissing University and an advocate of unschooling, a concept that's gaining popularity in both Canada and the United States thanks to frustration with the current public education system. In unschooling the child is in control of his/her learning. They are free to decide what they want to study, when they want to study it.

ew Hampshire court rules that mother is too religious to homeschool

virgil — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:44:31 +0000

New Hampshire court rules that mother is too religious to homeschool daughter, orders child to attend government schooling.

US grants home schooling German family political asylum

Cyphase — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:58:39 +0000

A US judge has granted political asylum to a German family who said they had fled the country to avoid persecution for home schooling their children.

In the first reported case of its kind, Tennessee immigration judge Lawrence Burman ruled that the family of seven have a legitimate fear of prosecution for their beliefs. Germany requires parents to enrol[sic] their children in school in most cases and has levied fines against those who educate their children at home.