My wife was interviewed abput gingerbread houses and they got that wrong. As a general rule, the more personal knowledge you have of a newspaper story, the less accurate the story looks.
I'm sure that's true. What the reporter in the homeschooling piece did was outright misrepresentation of what we did say. Apparently the reporter couldn't find anybody to say what she wanted said in the article, so she twisted what we said.
We expected it, just not as bad as it was. Homeschoolers who know the law apparently aren't good copy so reporters twist what was said to sell newspapers.