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Religious freedom law used to challenge home-schooling requirements

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PITTSBURGH - Pennsylvania's home-schooling regulations are among the most stringent in the nation, requiring detailed record-keeping and reports to local school superintendents.

Maryalice Newborn -- who home-schools her five children -- says, "God is in our math, ...

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/news.php?p=8092&c=1
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It could be that Pennsylvania has a set of standards that any student must meet, regardless of where the education takes place. That the Newborns and another couple -- Thomas and Babette Hankin may believe that God is their math, the state non-the-less has an obligation to the children of its citizens and to the state's future. That is a minimum testable acquisition of knowledge quite apart from beleif.

Reporting within those conditions will most likely not reach a level where religious belief trumps the burdens of reporting.
 
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