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HOME SCHOOL MOMS QUESTIONAIRE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. DECLARATION OF NON-PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOL FORM FOR HOMESCHOOLERS-OUR RIGHTS 101 FY (SCHOOL YEAR - INDEFINITE) Can the school board guarantee my child’s safe return home from school each day. This includes the time that they are entrusted to your care during school hours. This includes but is not limited to safety in the rest rooms, in the hallways, on the stairways, in and under the bleachers, in the lunch room, in the class rooms, on the playgrounds, or on any school property. COMPLIANCECan the school board guarantee that a member of it’s...

Christian couple forced to quit fostering after refusing to tell kids its 'good to be gay'By JAMES MILLS - More by this author » Last updated at 17:56pm on 23rd October 2007  As devoted foster parents, Vincent and Pauline Matherick have provided a stable family home for almost 30 vulnerable children.  But the couple's latest foster son is being taken away from them by social workers because they have refused to promote homosexuality. They say that to do so would go against their Christian faith.  Vincent and Pauline Matherick: Face being struck off despite fostering 28 times The 11-year-old...

Imagine this: environmental activists transporting second-graders from suburban Connecticut public schools to Manhattan to protest a major U.S. bank at its headquarters. Impossible, you say? Not so. The Rainforest Action Network used Fairfield County, Conn., elementary school students to do just that to banking giant JP Morgan Chase last month. Apparently, the 7-year-olds objected to the bank's lending practices in developing nations. This was no isolated incident. RAN's actions, aptly characterized by Terence Corcoran of Canada's National Post as "ideological child abuse," are just one example of a startling new trend driven by left-leaning social and environmental activists who are...