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Homeschool Handwriting (on the Wall) 101, Quebec Edition
Four children ages 9, 7, 5 and 3 from a homeschooling family in Notre-Dame-des-Bois in Québec, Canada have been ordered into public school for socialization. The Roman Catholic family, who have been homeschooling their children for four years, were reported to the youth protection services (YPS) for neglect and had a four-day trial in November 2010. The judge in the case, Judge Nicole Bernier, ordered that the children remain in school or in day care until YPS officials approved a plan for...
Date: 2011-05-11 14:11:00
Related topics : homeschool resource of the day / families in support of home education / homeschooling in canada
Saint Louis Catholic: "Homeschool Help" from the City of St. Louis ...
"Homeschool Help" from the City of St. Louis? Um, No Thanks.
My lovely wife tipped me off to an item in Sunday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch that offers "help" to homeschooling parents. Since there is no link at STLToday, I will include the relevant portion of the announcement:
Birth Certificates and home-school help:
The St. Louis City Recorder of Deeds and Vital Records Registrar reminds parents of schoolchildren that the St. Louis City Hall offers Missouri Birth Certificate copy service and...
Date: 2011-08-08 17:58:00
Related topics : county schools home
Saint Louis Catholic: Illinois Homeschoolers Turn Out to Resist ...
Illinois Homeschoolers Turn Out to Resist Proposed Legislation Requiring State Registration
Peggy over at Southern Illinois Catholic had the story first, with a link to another Illinois blog with additional information and lots of great photos. The key to interpreting these photos is that the vast homeschooling crowd is actually comprised of only two families. Just a little inside homeschooling joke. Here is the Post-Dispatch story: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The halls of the State Capitol are...
Date: 2011-02-15 18:38:00
Related topics : board of education home school / how to home school kids
Saint Louis Catholic: From HSLDA: Missouri Homeschooling Alert
Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Representative Sara Lampe is working to lower the age of compulsory school attendance from age 7 to 5, and we need your help to stop her. House Bill 1543 will come to the floor of the House of Representatives in the very near future, and Lampe says she will try to amend it to lower the compulsory attendance age. Her strategy is to tack her amendment on and let it piggyback into law with the rest of the bill. The bill itself is likely to pass because of its...
Date: 2010-02-02 16:27:00
Related topics : families for home education missouri
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