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eaching your children at home will continue to require dedication - but no longer a college sheepskin - under a change to state law awaiting the governor's signature. Two identical "high school diploma" bills that passed recently say it's OK for anyone to home-school a child in Virginia as long as that person has earned at least a high school diploma, not a bachelor's degree as currently required. The proposed change raised little ruckus in the General Assembly. But parents who home-school welcomed the elimination of what they called an arbitrary, unwarranted restriction. Virginia parents with neither college nor high...

JAMES CITY -- An 8-year-old boy was taken from Rawls Byrd Elementary School in handcuffs Tuesday after he lost his temper, began overturning desks and throwing chairs, head-butted his teacher, kicked an assistant principal, threatened to bite her and finally kicked a police officer in the head, a police spokesman said. The boy was charged with disorderly conduct and assault and battery, said Maj. Stan Stout.