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Saturday, April 14, 2007
Coaches Against Alabama Homeschool Bill
Several county high school football coaches do not support a new bill that would allow home schooled children to participate in extracurricular activities at public high schools.
On Wednesday, the Senate Education Committee held a public hearing on the bill, which is being sponsored by Sen. Hank Erwin. The bill faced stiff opposition in the meeting, but the main reason Erwin is supporting the bill is to start a discussion on the issue. Read more...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Homeschooler's anti-war Web site draw 2 million a month
Turns out the new world looks a lot like the old one: a white house in a leafy neighborhood of a Southern milltown; a soccer decal stuck to the trunk of a car parked in the driveway; a pink bicycle with training wheels in the backyard.
Even inside, there's nothing that hints this is ground zero for a 16-year-old home schooled redhead whose videos on her anti-war Web site have lit up the blogosphere with as many as 2 million visitors a month. Read more...
Monday, March 12, 2007
Homeschooler wins Ala. spelling bee
Nearly five hours into the state?s 80th annual spelling bee, the word ?sempiternal? ? defined as eternal, everlasting ? took on a special meaning for the audience.
But Shelby County eighth-grader Grace Pyo persevered and won the weekend competition by spelling "philately," which her opponent had missed, and then correctly spelling "cruciferous" to clinch the bee in Round 15. Read more...
