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Ok, now it is time to panic

March 11, 2008 – 6:17 pm

In a startling development in California, a special task force consisting of SWAT teams and truancy officers has been developed, virtually overnight, targeting homeschool families.
Originally thought to be a logistical nightmare, distinguishing home-schooled children from that of the public school system, officials quickly learned they could gather up a list of suspects from last year’s [...]

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D.C. proposes greater restrictions on homeschools

March 11, 2008 – 7:15 am

Updates at the end.
Our nation’s capitol has some of the most lenient homeschool laws in the country, requiring only notification with a form that is now available online. In the wake of the Banita Jacks case, however, Mayor Fenty vowed to institute a tracking system to keep track of all homeschooled or transfer students. [...]