This is Handel on the Law, marginal legal advice, where I tell you you have absolutely no case.

All right, this is a story I did, and I've been doing this regularly about homeschooling,

and this story is not particularly about homeschooling, but is peripherally about homeschooling.

Now, people who homesed their kids in the

past were they did it for primarily religious reasons. And usually these are Christian Americans

who believe very fundamentally in schools teaching a Christian-based religion. Well, the courts have never allowed that in public school.

You can't do it. Separation of church and state. You just can't do it. And I grew up in a system where it was a public school system and religion was just not part of it.

And so parents who were unhappy with that philosophy would homeschool their kids.

And more and more of them are doing it, by the way.

And not so much on the religious level now.

Over half of those people are doing because education is so crappy in public schools.

And therein lies this story about Oregon.

Oregon has just dropped all graduation standards

based on equity.

Graduation standards is based on the requirement to pass the state mandated, well, state mandated rules, state

mandated tests they do, writing clearly, accurately, math, basically reading, writing,

and writing the math.

And the students were required to demonstrate those skills for graduating high

school. That's it. They had to earn a certain level of points. They had to graduate with a certain

knowledge. And a whole lot of students didn't. And they didn't graduate. Well, that's changed.

COVID had changed because school closure and it was just really

difficult for students in home learning and the learning outside of the classroom to, in fact,

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