[Born in a Rage]

The article states that "they did not file educational plans or determine a grading system for the children, two criteria of Waltham Public School's home schooling policy."

Here in NH we have to send in an educational plan to the NH Dept. of Education, which we do. Evidently, the law in their state also requires that homeschoolers file educational plans but they just decided they didn't feel like it....then when they (the state) tries to 'give them a break' by asking the kids to take a test - they refuse to do that as well. Well....now they are in trouble and they put themselves there with their arrogance/ignorance, imho. I don't side with them one bit.

[Tax-chick]

two criteria of Waltham Public School's home schooling policy."

The public school district doesn't make the rules, only the state law does. It's still not clear from the article whether they're in compliance with the law, but this is a red herring.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I understand what you are saying, I even agree with you somewhat,but we don't know from this article what attempts were made to comply with the law up to this point, do we?

I know someone here in PA, who had a very agressive homeschool rep at her local school, who have has her portfiolios marked up and "corrected" in red pen , only to be told the work was not satisfactory and the child would no tbe "passed" on to the next grade, Huh?

Then come to find out the person doing the correcting was making comments all through the portfiolio that the work was not acceptable for a fifth grader and would not be passed onto sixth grade. Interesting for a portfiolio full of work from a second grader. IMO anyone with power can make life difficult for homeschoolers if they really want to .