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• Tennessee: Home-schooling Family Is Denied Asylum
  A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a German family could not claim asylum in the United States because it would face penalties in Germany for home-schooling its children.
  
  
• One Coalition Stays True to Todd Akin: Home-Schoolers
  The Republican candidate for Senate in Missouri has been largely abandoned by the party establishment, but home-schoolers have remained loyal.
  
  
• Bill’s Defeat a Blow to Home-Schooled Athletes
  A bill that would have allowed home-schooled children in Virginia to play varsity sports at public high schools was defeated Thursday by a state Senate committee.
  
  
• Should Home-Schoolers Get to Play for the Team?
  Is a move to let home-schooled teenagers try out for their local high school teams a move in the right direction?
  
  
• My Parents Were Home Schooling Anarchists
  How my siblings and I survived our family’s educational experiment.
  
  
• Home-School Education Concludes With a Mainstream Graduation
  A nontraditional movement goes mainstream, embracing many of the trappings of the graduation season.
  
  
• Home Schooling, Done Reasonably
  An excellent blog on the pleasures and perils of home schooling.
  
  
• Judge Grants Asylum to German Home Schoolers
  A Tennessee judge granted asylum to a German couple who said they feared persecution in their home country because they wanted to home school their five children.
  
  
• Home-Schooled Football League Thrives in Georgia
  The Glory for Christ Football League, which emphasizes faith and fellowship, came into being because school teams were not an option in Georgia.
  
  
• Special Services Ending for the Home Schooled
  WHEN her son, Ricky, entered elementary school in the Katonah-Lewisboro district, Joy Drummond spent hours every evening helping him learn what his teachers had presented in the classroom. But Ricky, who has a learning disability, was not able to absorb the lessons. “I was reteaching him everything,” Ms. Drummond said.