Category Archives: Homeschool

Romeike Family Asylum Update: DOJ Wins. Family To Be Deported.

Posted on March 3, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Sad news – the Obama Administration’s DOJ has prevailed and the Romeike family, who was seeking asylum from persecution in Germany for Homeschooling their kids, will be deported.

For those unfamiliar with this story, here are my previous articles on the Romeike Case: Continue reading →

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Romeike Family Asylum Update – SCOTUS Orders DOJ To Respond

Posted on December 2, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

There is an update in the Romeike Family Asylum case. The SCOTUS has ordered Eric Holder’s DOJ to respond to the petition from Home School Legal Defense Association’s (HSLDA) who is handling the Romeike case. The family is from Germany and have requested asylum from the United States on the grounds they are being persecuted for homeschooling their children. More background on this story can be found at the links below the story or at Washington Times.
Charisma news:

The U.S. Supreme Court ordered Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday to respond to the Home School Legal Defense Association’s (HSLDA) petition on behalf of the Romeike family, a German home-schooling family that fled to the United States to avoid persecution just because they home schooled their children. Continue reading →

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News & Record’s Statist Response To Home Schooling Searches

Posted on October 16, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

I was under the weather and out of action yesterday but perhaps might have rallied to respond to this article at the News and Record had I seen it: Home school inspections would intrude on privacy?

A day ago, the Lt. Governor’s office sent out press releases alerting the public that NDPE (Division of Non-Public Education) might be thinking about bringing back random spot inspections and searches of home schools. NDPE and the Lt. Governor’s office then issued a joint statement saying such inspections would not happen.

The article, written by Doug Clark, seems to take aim at the Lt. Governor for advocating the privacy rights of home schoolers. The article reports the facts of the case in the first couple of paragraphs, then it turns a bit statist sounding. From the article with emphasis added: Continue reading →

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UPDATED – Homeschools Being Subjected To Random Inspections?

Posted on October 14, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

Are homeschools in North Carolina going to be subjected to random searches? It looks like the NDPE (Division of Non-Public Education) might be resuming just such a practice. I’ve written before that we’d be seeing homeschools come under more scrutiny. Common Core is becoming wildly unpopular and widely criticized, so could this be the start of a crackdown of parents trying to flee it?

Via press release from the Lt. Governor’s office: Continue reading →

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