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  • Parents challenge restrictions on home schooling

    05/31/2004 5:54:39 AM PDT · by LadyShallott · 125 replies · 810+ views
    newsday.com ^ | May 30, 2004 | KATHY HENNESSY
    TRENTON, N.J. -- Public education bored Tim Haas, so he and his wife decided they were better suited to care for and educate their two sons than the state. But Haas and the thousands of other New Jersey families that homeschool now face what they say is an unnecessary and unfair intrusion by the same state regulators they tried to escape. A bill in the New Jersey Legislature would require home-schooled children to get state-mandated annual physical exams and take standardized tests required of public school children.