[Cincinatus' Wife]

Waltham parents' hearing benched: Homeschooled kids stay put ***"The number one guidance that the DOE provides is for parents to get their curriculum approved by the school committee in the district," said Heidi Perlman, spokeswoman for the DOE. "The school committee must approve the curriculum before it is deemed as acceptable."

……….The parents have been ruled unfit because they did not file educational plans or determine a grading system for the children, two criteria of Waltham's homeschooling policy.***

It looks like no one is going to back down. If they take the kids, this will blow up in the state's face.

[CyberCowboy777]

The state cannot back down! What impertinence! To think that a parent may know better than the state, why the state has 'experts'.


The state is going to flex it's muscles and if this gets to a higher court the state will be handed it's hat.

Unless the state can prove harm in fact, it has no place in these parents face. The state cannot require reading of it's citizens, it cannot require a specified educational track. It only is admonish to promote education for all, not to FORCE it.