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By Beverly Hernandez, About.com Guide to Homeschooling since 1999

Homeschool mother and son arrested

Friday February 25, 2005
Imagine enjoying a homeschool park day with your children and friends, then being dragged away to jail. That's what happened at a homeschool group park day in South Carolina. Thankfully, the charges have already been dropped and the arresting officer has been fired.

Ron Strom of WorldNetDaily reports:

"the incident occurred at Simpsonville Park in Simpsonville, S.C. Feb. 16. A group of mothers and children from Upstate Homeschoolers Unlimited were meeting together when a plainclothes policeman rushed into the picnic shelter where some of the homeschoolers were gathered, reportedly after a call came in to police about someone in the park having a knife.

According to parents who witnessed the event, the policeman began shouting at two teenage boys, pushing at least one to the ground. When he went to grab one of the boys, a mother, who at the time was holding another woman's baby, stepped in to stop him, not realizing he was a police officer."

What an ordeal. I hate to see people lose their jobs, but sheesh. Share your thoughts in the forum.

Upstate Homeschoolers Unlimited

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