NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State education officials will look at taking a more active role overseeing homeschooled students after a case of education neglect was discovered earlier this month in Franklin.

There is no single person, agency or state department currently required to oversee the estimated 30,000 homeschool students statewide. Home schools must register with either the public school system in their area or a church-related "umbrella" school, but the state reported that only 5,340 students registered last year despite the requirement.

"We will have internal discussions to decide if we want to have more of an oversight role," said Keith Brewer, deputy education commissioner.

To improve home school oversight, critics say the state needs to do a better job of defining home schools and tracking the number of students.

Church-related umbrella schools aren't required to report elementary and middle school numbers to public districts, which in turn, report them to the state. Plus, the bulk of students who are taught at home statewide are part of private school satellite programs. They don't have to follow homeschool rules because they are considered "private school" students by the state.

Earlier this month, a homeschooled 16-year-old girl from Franklin was enrolled in a private school after tests showed she was years behind her peers academically.

Several lawmakers have proposed that students taught at home take the same state-mandated achievement tests as students in public schools. But state Rep. Bill Dunn, R-Knoxville, has homeschooled five children and says extra testing isn't going to accomplish much.

"Homeschoolers are doing very well, they aren't costing taxpayers any money, and they're turning out productive citizens," he said. "If something is working, you leave it alone."



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Perfect example of democratic tyranny. Homeschoolers by definition belong to different homes with different ways of doing things. The cellular makeup makes it impossible for one bad home to contaminate others. It is illogical to claim that one neglected child invalidates an entire practice. Who ever heard of a public school where abuses didn't happen? Or where the school's very existence was called into question?

Bad apples will be used as pretexts for extended government tyranny. All done in the interests and name of "the children," but really in the interests of ZOG and ZOG's local education-major manatees.

Remember that homeschooling was illegal in 45 states up until 1983. There will be a jew-led movement to restore that control. Jewish "researchers" have already produced studies calling for more regulation. These will be cited by NEA, and state legislatures will nod gravely.

But even if they pass new rules, families will just go underground.

Article by J. Michael Smith, pres of HS legal defense association, writing in WT...

http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/washingtontimes/200412280.asp



One-on-one instruction is the genius of home education. Students can excel in areas where they are strong and spend extra time in areas where they may have more difficulty. No child is left behind when the parents are committed to education.

[THINK ABOUT HOW HYPOCRITICAL AND DISINGENUOUS PUBLIC SCHOOL TYRANTS ARE. THEY BITCH ABOUT NOT HAVING ENOUGH MONEY, THEY BITCH ABOUT TOO MANY STUDENTS PER TEACHER. HERE COMES SOMETHING THAT CUTS DOWN ON BOTH "PROBLEMS," AND THEY... OPPOSE IT WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT.

IT'S NOT JUST THAT ANY INSTITUTION NOT OVERTLY ANTI-SEMITIC WILL BE TAKEN OVER BY JEWS, BUT ITS EVERY EXPONENT WILL BECOME JEWISH IN HIS THINKING: I.E., LIE MORE OR LESS UNCONSCIOUSLY, MOTIVE-SPOT ENDLESSLY, AND CRY FOR MORE AND UNDESERVED MONEY.]

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Patrick Henry College (PHC) is a four-year undergraduate Christian liberal arts college. Founded in 2000 by the Home School Legal Defense Association, it is 50 miles northwest of the District in Purcellville, Va. The college's mission is to prepare Christian men and women to lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding.

PHC students are pursuing this goal. Recently, a PHC moot-court team was sent to England. A moot-court team learns a court case before arguing the case in a mock trail before a panel of judges.

The four-person team from PHC competed with the best students at Oxford University. The cases argued were run according to the British legal system, and the subject was British contract law, which the PHC team had to learn for the trip. The final rounds of the tournament were judged by Lord Tom Bingham and Lord Brian Hutton. Mr. Bingham holds the title of senior law lord, a position equivalent to a U.S. Supreme Court justice, while Mr. Hutton serves as a lord of appeal.

Against the odds, the four seniors who made up the PHC team defeated Oxford.