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Home Schoolers on SOC – Update Video

By Jim Vicevich / March 17, 2009 /

If you haven’t seen Steve’s post on the home schooling mom in North Carolina you can read it here. The mom in this post Venessa Mills and another home schooling mom Robyn Williams will be joining us on the show at 10:10 am. Here’s a quick recap of the story. Raleigh, N.C. — A judge…

California kids sent home for wearing USA flag apparel on Cinco de Mayo

By Steve McGough / May 6, 2010 /

I need a margarita Jack & Coke after reading this. Four students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif. were sent home from school after refusing to remove bandannas and T-shirts on May 5 – Cinco de Mayo – since their apparel was incendiary.

High School Dropout Rate Crisis

By Steve McGough / April 2, 2008 / Comments Off on High School Dropout Rate Crisis

If anything can be defined as a crisis, the current high school dropout rate statistics just might qualify. America’s Promise Alliance, founded by Colin Powell, released a report entitled Cities in Crisis, A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation [PDF, 1.8 MB]. Overall, only seven in 10 high school student go on to graduate,…

Can’t Win the Game? Change the Rules

By Steve McGough / March 6, 2008 / Comments Off on Can’t Win the Game? Change the Rules

A California appellate court has ruled that it is not legal for parents who lack official government teaching credentials to home-school their kids. This ruling is freaking out the parents of about 166,000 kids who are home schooled in the state. There is little doubt that the public school system is not doing a good…