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  • Homeschoolers Ordered into Public Classrooms ( It begins... )

    03/11/2009 9:32:28 PM PDT · by kellynla · 197 replies · 6,521+ views
    worldnetdaily.com ^ | March 11, 2009 | Bob Unruh
    A North Carolina judge has ordered three children to attend public schools this fall because the homeschooling their mother has provided over the last four years needs to be "challenged." The children, however, have tested above their grade levels – by as much as two years. The decision is raising eyebrows among homeschooling families, and one friend of the mother has launched a website to publicize the issue. The ruling was made by Judge Ned Mangum of Wake County, who was handling a divorce proceeding for Thomas and Venessa Mills.
  • Mom will fight order against home schooling

    03/13/2009 8:15:42 AM PDT · by Between the Lines · 278 replies · 9,529+ views
    Raleigh News and Observer ^ | Mar. 13, 2009 | T. Keung Hui
    RALEIGH -- Home-school groups and conservatives across the country are infuriated by a Wake County judge's declaration that he will make a North Raleigh mother stop teaching her children at home and send them to public schools. As part of a continuing divorce case, Wake District Court Judge Ned Mangum said last Friday that it would be in the "best interests" of Venessa Mills' three children to go to public school this fall. Mangum said at the hearing that while the children are "thriving," they need to be exposed to the "real world." "It will do them a great benefit...