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Public schools tap homeschoolers
By Jan Bontekoe The Hamilton County School Board revisited their July decision to not allow home educated students to participate on area school teams and voted this time to allow home educated students to participate beginning with winter sports. The rule applies to homeschooled students registered with their local education district. Those covered
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From faithful stewardship arise homeschool liberties
Jeter memo enacted into state law By Claiborne Thornton Vulnerable. Perhaps as many as 95 percent of high school homeschoolers had been vulnerable for 15 years. It all started in the late 1990s in Lauderdale County in West Tennessee when an aggressive attendance officer took the “dual enrollment”
Details of improved homeschooling law
From HSLDA website: As signed by Gov. Bill Haslam on June 16, HB 1631 significantly changes the homeschool law of Tennessee in the following ways: Whereas the old law defined a “home school” as a school conducted by parents or guardians for their own children, the new law expands the definition
Home School Bill Introduced
Press Release Tennessee Home Education Association 17 Feveruary 2011 Nashville, TN – Legislation has been introduced today by Senator Mike Bell and Representative Bill Dunn to change the home school law in Tennessee. The Tennessee Home Education Association has observed that much that takes
Swedes face homeschooling ban
(Editor’s note: Gary Johnson was a friend of mine back when we were both single missionaries, he was with Athletes in Action in Sweden and I with MTW in the Netherlands. Gary married a Swedish national and he and his wife, Linda, just welcomed their 11th child. We view his story as a cautionary tale.
Bredesen signs diploma bill
Tennessee law has changed to end practices of discrimination against homeschool diplomas awarded by so-called umbrella schools, which home educators in the state gather under to keep from getting rained on by state bureaucracy. State-licensed day care centers and police departments had turned up their
Groundbreaking victory for homeschoolers
By Bobbie Patray The bill that passed the Senate and House Schools requires that diplomas issued by homeschools be recognized by all state and local governmental entities as having the same rights and privileges of diplomas issued by public school systems. Background: Despite the fact that home schooled
Parental rights amendment awaits our aid
By Cal Beisner The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is a major threat to parents’ freedom to raise their children as they believe best — to teach them their religious
State Senator Berke to meet with us
During the last rally day, the Philip Lohr family invited Sen. Andy Berke to meet with the CSTHEA board. Sen. Berke was very open to this idea and is scheduled to come to the October monthly meeting. The board would like for as many home educators who are able to come to Oakwood Baptist for a short