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According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, "College officials worry that lobbyists for homeschoolers will persuade Republicans in Congress and the Bush administration to require colleges to admit students who may not be adequately prepared, exposing the institution to lawsuits if they refuse to enroll them. These officials point to a letter that the Home School Legal Defense Association, a national lobbying group, sent to financial-aid administrators and admissions officers on the heels of the Education Department's notice. The letter stated that requiring home-schooled students to take extra tests to qualify for admission is 'considered discriminatory.' The letter demanded that 'all the barriers for home-schoolers seeking admission and financial aid must immediately be disregarded and revoked from the policy of your university.'" ("A Growing Force: In fight for federal student aid, home-school lobby has powerful friends," January 17, 2003, p. A19 ff.)

This part confused me, why would you object to homeschoolers having to take a test before they enter college?

I know quite a few homeschooled kids that are in college now (my 15 year old being one of them). They don't have a diploma, haven't graduated from high school, but they did pass the College Placement Test, so they are allowed to take classes and tuition is free under our dual enrollment program which is available to all 10-12 graders.

How can anybody get into college without taking some sort of placement test even if you do have a diploma.

Doesn't every student have to take a test of some sort to enter college, and why are they objecting to homeschoolers having to take such a test?

The letter stated that requiring home-schooled students to take extra tests to qualify for admission is 'considered discriminatory.'

Extra tests, in addition to those required for other students.

Since so many students graduating from high school don't have a basic education, colleges might decide to use test data as their only criterion for admission. Or maybe they could just let anyone who can pay the fees sign up, and if they can't do the work, flunk 'em out.

It all sounds sooo reasonable. "Why shouldn't homeschoolers take tests, after all, they do so well on SATs etc." (See Genisis 3:B - "Did God really say 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden?'") There is nothing innocent about the people who want this "official" intrusion into the right that people have to home school. Liberals specialize in "inch-by-inch" gain until they have taken over whatever it is they want. (Too many examples to list) The answer is to fight ANY legislation aimed at home schoolers to regulate. After all, compared to the product the public schools are turning out, home schooled children could sleep all day and be better off.

Republicans in Congress and the Bush administration to require colleges to admit students who may not be adequately prepared

So, from this I can conclude that 85% of players taking to the collegiate gridiron this weekend will be doing so as the result of a VRWC.

Doesn't every student have to take a test of some sort to enter college[?]

In a word: no.
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