[fatima]

Salvation,We had some homeschoolers almost starve to death in N.J.,I am for med exams and standard tests,which will help them for grants.I know the posters are great parents but some people ?

[ladylib]

It's amazing that they almost starved to death, considering they had DYFS visit them 38 times.

It's not a homeschooling problem, it's a DYFS problem.

[agrace]

Salvation,We had some homeschoolers almost starve to death in N.J.,I am for med exams and standard tests,which will help them for grants.I know the posters are great parents but some people ?

No, that is a serious mischaracterization. There were some FOSTER KIDS who happened to be homeschooled who almost starved to death.

DYFS workers documented dozens of trips made to see those kids over the last couple of years and NOBODY thought it prudent to note that there was anything wrong with them, or to question the padlock on the kitchen.

But instead of the broken machine of social services coming under fire from the NJ legislature, homeschoolers are. As if they are the root of the problem.

With this post, you are basically saying that homeschooling families should be monitored. Well guess what, this one was, extensively, and the state failed miserably.

As a homeschooling parent, I find it appalling that because the state failed to do its job via its very own FOSTER CARE SYSTEM, the state gets to make blanket requirements of HOMESCHOOLERS.

Huh? That's like saying, because the police failed to arrest a troublesome criminal element terrorizing your neighborhood, YOU have to let police know where you are at all times. I mean, most are great neighbors but some people?

[Coleus]

The problem with this bill is that it "mandates" "annual physicals" for homeschoolers and "exempts" mandatory "annual" pysical examinations for public schoolers. Millions go with NO exams while the few homeschooled children are "required" for annual exams?? No, this bill is an affront to homeschooling which has nothing to do for the health of a child. Marxism at its best.