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Dying Mainstream Media Slams Pro-Homeschool, Anti-Testing, NY State DOE Employee | Grumpy Opinions

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Dying Mainstream Media Slams Pro-Homeschool, Anti-Testing, NY State DOE Employee

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BY LINDA DOBSON
Parent At The Helm

It was only a matter of time. In her previous work for the New York State Department of Education, Lisa Nielsen was charged with helping students and families who were having schooling (not necessarily education) problems. After putting the needs of individual children before the comfort of the system in which they were floundering, it was only a matter of time before Ms. Nielsen came to see the damage of increasing standardized testing, among many other schooling practices. It wasn’t that much more of a jump to recognize and suggest homeschool as a viable, healthy, often sanity-saving alternative.
So, what should a couple of fine, upstanding reporters who regularly churn out trash for that beacon of outstanding journalism, the  New York Post do? They write a piece of yellow journalism, dripping with so much bias as to be laughable, slap the word “exclusive” on it, add a