{"id":20697,"date":"2016-02-09T21:43:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T02:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20697"},"modified":"2016-02-09T21:43:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T02:43:24","slug":"natl-home-school-legal-defense-assn-protect-your-right-to-keep-kids-home-during-portfolio-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20697","title":{"rendered":"Natl. Home School Legal Defense Assn.: Protect Your Right to Keep Kids Home during Portfolio Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natl. Home School Legal Defense Assn.: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hslda.org\/hs\/state\/md\/201602090.asp\">Protect Your Right to Keep Kids Home during Portfolio Review<\/a> (MD), by Scott Woodruff:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What should you do if a local portfolio reviewer asks you to bring your child with you to an annual homeschool portfolio review? The best answer for almost everyone is, \u201cno thank you.\u201d Here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n<p>The homeschool regulation COMAR 13A.10.01.01.E which says a parent \u201cshall agree to permit\u201d a portfolio reviewer to \u201cobserve instruction\u201d is unconstitutional. The Fourth Amendment prohibits government agents from coming into your home without a warrant. A portfolio reviewer who might seek to come into your home (where instruction normally occurs) would have no warrant. Nor would she have grounds for a warrant. Forcing you to allow a government agent into your home to observe instruction violates your Fourth Amendment rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natl. Home School Legal Defense Assn.: Protect Your Right to Keep Kids Home during Portfolio Review (MD), by Scott Woodruff: What should you do if a local portfolio reviewer asks you to bring your child with you to an annual &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20697\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20698,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697\/revisions\/20698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}