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<p>School officials in California are warning parents that they cannot educate their children at home unless they obtain professional teaching credentials.</p> <p>Without the proper credentials, parents no longer can file required paperwork that would authorize them to home school their children, states a memo issued by the state Department of Education. As a result, those children not attending public schools would be considered "truant" by local school districts.</p>

<p>School officials in California are warning parents that they cannot educate their children at home unless they obtain professional teaching credentials.</p> <p>Without the proper credentials, parents no longer can file required paperwork that would authorize them to home school their children, states a memo issued by the state Department of Education. As a result, those children not attending public schools would be considered "truant" by local school districts.</p>

Editor, The Times: I suppose I should have expected them, but I am still disgusted by some of the responses to the terrorist attacks. Enough pasty, activists' holier-than-thou "turn the other cheek" attitudes. Enough pacifist blithering. Enough cutesy moralizing slogans about eyeballs and "rising above it all." What these pacifist anti-war people don't seem to understand is that terrorists who are willing and able to plow commercial airliners into the sides of 100-story buildings and military installations of the most powerful country in the world are not interested in learning pacifist ideas; they are not interested in peace, or higher ...

An Alabama district attorney's office said Friday it has no immediate plans to prosecute anyone at a university after a family alleged their teen-age daughter became a sexual "plaything" for the school's athletes. The parents of the girl, identified only as "Jane Doe," filed a $40 million lawsuit against the University of Alabama-Birmingham on Thursday, accusing school officials, coaches and others of doing nothing to help their daughter "despite this knowledge of sexual exploitation." The girl entered the university just before her 15th birthday as one of the youngest freshmen in Alabama history. Under Alabama law, statutory rape is defined ...

Ashkan Sahihi (above) is an Iranian/German pho- tographer who is infuriated by the war on drugs. “I find it despicable,” he says. “If the American government was really concerned about stopping drug abuse, things like legalization and free needle programs would at least enter the discussion. In the absence of that, all we have is a silly political tool to please the Christian right.” It is this hypocrisy that inspired Sahihi to take eleven people out of their daily environments and get them high. He chose eleven different drugs and fed them to subjects who were relatively foreign to the ...

WASHINGTON -- A draft copy of a National Institutes of Health report on the effectiveness of condoms says science cannot yet confirm that condoms prevent the spread of most sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), other than HIV and the transmission of gonorrhea from woman to man. The report, obtained by CNN Thursday, says "the absence of definitive conclusions ... should not be interpreted as proof of the adequacy or inadequacy of the condom to reduce the risk of STDs other than HIV transmission in men and women, and gonorrhea in men. To definitely answer the remaining questions about condom effectiveness for ...

Operating on a variation from the pre-post-a-note era when it was a laugh riot to slap a Please Kick Me! sign on an unsuspecting bully's back, I post-modernized that old prank and printed up bumper stickers that read, 'The earth is our Mother, but SHE'S MY GAS PUMP!!” I even dreamed up a fictitious organization responsible for the mayhem: United Radicals Against Petroleum Irresponsibility Group because I liked the acronym and that went on the sticker too as an added hedge against dunderheads who might not get the joke. My friends loved it and agreed to slap them on SUV ...

Dear Auntie Pinko, When my conservative friends bring up the subject of welfare, and compare it to stealing money out of their pockets to give to someone else, how does a liberal counter this argument? John, Bucyrus, OH Dear John, This is one of the more prevalent whines in vogue amongst conservatives, and the ways of dealing with it are so numerous that it would take more space than Auntie Pinko's column is allowed to enumerate them all. For your convenience, I'll distill them down into three basic responses: A moral response, a social philosophy response, and a pragmatic self-interested ...

A complaint filed by a Minneapolis teacher who objects to the presence of a "transgendered" man in the women’s restroom at Southwest High School was rejected last month by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, which ruled that there is "no probable cause" for state action. The situation began in May of 1998 when school librarian David Nielsen started coming to Southwest High School dressed in women’s clothing. Nielsen also had his name legally changed to Debra Davis, but reportedly has not had a sex-change operation. Minnesota is the only state in the U.S.which extends civil rights protections to trans-gendered ...

Hi everyone, please go here and FReep this place! This is a board I had frequented for over a year and I left recently because it is *overrun* with liberals. It is in dire need of a large infusion of conservative thoughts, as it stands conservatives can't hardly get a word in edgeways without being attacked by at least six or seven hysterical leftists. So, GO FREEPERS, GO! The discussion that caused me to do this was "US Constitution Marriage Amendment (M+W only)" Have fun!

This is a messageboard that I have frequented for over a year, but recently decided to quit because of the overwhelming influence of liberals, homosexuals, atheists, etc. It's really disproportionate. What I would like to see is a whole flood of people from FreeRepublic sign up here (it's easy) and just deluge it with conservative thought. This is the discussion that urged me to think of this: http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?q=Y&a=tpc&s=50009562&f=28609695&m=8440991522&p=1 GO FREEPERS, GO!

I do not read Glamour magazine; in fact, I am boycotting it, and have been for a few years. Of the numerous neo-feminist fashion magazines out there (the ones with the starving children on their covers--oh wait, those are supermodels), Glamour has consistently been the worst offender when it comes to sticking its proverbial nose where it doesn't belong--namely, politics. Glamour has always had a liberal feminist bent to it, at least where pure politics is concerned (but someone ought to tell them there is nothing feminist about eighty-pound twelve-year-olds modeling trampy-looking ten-thousand-dollar outfits). Other magazines, such as Marie Claire ...

Along with his predecessor, Joycelyn Elders (mullah of masturbation education), Surgeon General David Satcher was appointed by President Bill Clinton. It shows, especially in his new report, "A Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior." There's a telling item buried in a Washington Post story on the report's release. In compiling his manifesto, he consulted a variety of sources, the surgeon general disclosed, including those who would "qualify as commercial sex workers." "Now, wait a minute," I said to Damon Thompson, a Satcher spokesman. "Are you telling me the surgeon general asked prostitutes how to teach ...

"A policy that ends discrimination based on sexual orientation can be implemented in a practical and realistic manner." TRNP Editor's Note: Despite overwhelming controversy over gays in the military in early 1993--mostly negative--this positive 1993 RAND study never got significant news coverage, nor did Senator Sam Nunn's hearings call any witnesses to testify on the study which reportedly cost the Pentagon $1.2 million. President Clinton based his 1993 Executive Order on this study, but as soon as the "don't ask" deal was struck (after enormous pressure from Demos as well as Republicans in Congress), the RAND study disappeared from view ...

The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000 when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis. The Madrid study marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals; the first was a Virginia investigation 26 years ago. In both studies, the THC shrank or destroyed tumors in a majority of the test subjects. Most Americans don't know anything about the Madrid discovery. Virtually no major U.S. newspapers carried the story, which ran only once on the AP ...