{"id":6857,"date":"2006-08-17T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2006-08-17T12:27:36","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T16:27:36","slug":"regulate-the-homeschoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6857","title":{"rendered":"REGULATE THE HOMESCHOOLERS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expect to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mohavedailynews.com\/articles\/2006\/08\/17\/news\/state\/state2.txt\">calls <\/a>for increased regulation in AZ:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) &#8211; Police in Surprise arrested a couple accused of abducting their grandson in California in 2004 and recovered the 11-year-old after a raid on the couple&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Lynn Embrey, 67, and Bonnie Gail Embrey, 66, were arrested Tuesday at their home in Sun City Grand, a retirement development, on a felony warrant for child abduction, Officer Michael Stewart said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators with the Kern County District Attorney&#8217;s Office in Bakersfield., Ca., worked with Surprise police to locate the couple and make the arrests. They are being held in the Maricopa County jail pending extradition to California.<\/p>\n<p>The couple are accused of taking Travis Embrey from Bakersfield in May 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart said the couple had guardianship of the boy, and objected to unsupervised visits with his mother. They asked a judge to block the unsupervised visits, and fled when the judge denied their request.<\/p>\n<p>The Embreys were living in a rented home, apparently the fourth they had lived in since arriving in Arizona. They apparently were homeschooling Travis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their guardianship must have been revoked sometime between 2004 and now; else how could they be charged?  Does this mean, too, that they weren&#8217;t legally home educating?  From <a href=\"http:\/\/homeschooling.gomilpitas.com\/laws\/blAZ.htm\">A to Z<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Currently the Arizona Homeschooling law requires that:<\/p>\n<p>    * Every child between the ages of six and sixteen years shall be provided instruction in at least the subjects of reading, grammar, mathematics, social studies and science.<br \/>\n    <strong>* The person who has custody of the child shall choose a public, private or home school to provide instruction. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Presumably, that&#8217;d be <i>legal<\/i> custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expect to see calls for increased regulation in AZ: SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) &#8211; Police in Surprise arrested a couple accused of abducting their grandson in California in 2004 and recovered the 11-year-old after a raid on the couple&#8217;s home. Robert Lynn Embrey, 67, and Bonnie Gail Embrey, 66, were arrested Tuesday at their home in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}