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Homeschooling German Family Seeks Asylum in US
Like many Europeans before them, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike have left the mother country for America under a cloud of religious persecution. That's what the husband and wife are telling US immigration authorities, anyway. The couple says they were persecuted in Germany for their evangelical Christian beliefs and for homeschooling their children.
California Parents Do Not Have Right to Homeschool
This week, a California appeals court reaffirmed the state's compulsory education statute — which requires parents to send children to an accredited full-time day school, or have their children instructed at home by a credentialed tutor. The panel of three judges, rejected the notion that parents have a constitutional right to educate their children at home.
The parents in the lawsuit also argued that the state's law violated their freedom of religion.
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Many Blessings: Christian Sect Believes Its Kids Will Fix the US
It's not uncommon to say children are a blessing, but Quiverfull (the name of a small movement among Christian Evangelicals) families take the belief very, very seriously. So much that they eschew all forms of birth control, even natural methods, and 10-children families have become the norm. Is it so there's enough love to go around?
HIV-Positive Teen Bullied at School, Sues School District
While at school, a 14-year-old HIV-positive girl confronted hateful notes left on her locker, was told by her soccer coach that the team could use her HIV status to scare the other teams, and endured name-calling on a regular basis.
The AP reports that the ridicule became so harsh that the girl left school. Now being homeschooled, she has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that school officials did nothing to stop the crippling bullying.
Group Therapy: How Do I Befriend Other Women?
I never had a close relationship to my adopted mother, and I never knew my birth mother. I have one older sister who I have never been close to, and I was home-schooled kindergarten through high school, so I never developed close female friendships or did the normal girl stuff as a kid. Now, at 24 years old, I have a lot of trouble relating to other women.
Boy Bands in the 60's
It's hard to imagine that these guys existed in the same era as The Rolling Stones and The Who--you know, cool bands. Maybe they were home-schooled or something--by elves from Vegas.
A picture says a thousand words, but I really only have one: Wow.
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