Homeschool Status Equal to Public Schools?

As you may know, I home educated my children for more than a decade. All three graduated and all three attended college.

I am heartened to note that in a recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Morse v. Frederick, Justice Thomas essentially placed home education on an equal footing as public and private schooling. He said "If parents do not like the rules imposed by those schools, they can seek redress in school boards or legislatures; they can send their children to private schools or home school them; or they can simply move.” (page 11 of slip opinion)

The core issue in this case was free speech, which is an important issue, but I took interest in what Justice Thomas said in his concurring opinion. This is, I think, the first time that home education has been mentioned as an alternative to public schooling in a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

San Francisco State University Speech Regulations

FIRE has another university to target for unlawful speech codes: San Francisco State University. More on that here: Students Sue San Francisco State University over Unconstitutional Speech Codes

Ideological Litmus Test in Social Work

This event at HHS (U.S. Dept. of Heath of Human Services)has been brewing since last year. Now, FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) has written a letter to HHS. FIRE claims that by only hiring social workers who graduate from colleges that are accredited by the CSWE ( Council on Social Work Education ), HHS is indirectly supporting an unconstitutional ideological litmus test. See the letter here.

Since this is the second letter to HHS, and two more organizations, NAS (National Association of Scholars) and ACTA ( American Council of Trustees and Alumni ) joined in the letter, perhaps Rear Admiral Denise Canton will investigate FIRE's claims.

No Grade for a Christian Social Work Student

Even though this grad student complied with the professor's censorship of a faith-based solution in return for a promise to not downgrade the paper, the professor has refused (!) to even grade the student's paper. The reason: probably because the student did as the professor suggested, but also dared to include some legal information from the American Center for Law and Justice that would help the professor understand that this kind of academic censorship of free speech should not occur again.

So, the Alliance Defense Fund wrote a letter to Southern Illinois University.

What will happen next?