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20 Dec ’15 - 6:15 am

some reason I was thinking of this yesterday, did some looking and it seems they got the kids back and just had another baby, good for them

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31 Dec ’15 - 4:11 pm

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I'm actually a little on the side of CPS/state in this. From what I've read a big part of the reason for them doing what they did is because of the home schooling. It's not an approved state program/curriculum. It seems to me the media has blown this up with a bias against the state, and is making it seem like it's just because this family is "off the grid".

For the life of me, I have never understood why people who choose to live outside the status-quo or society's pre-proscribed "normal", but are causing no harm to others, can be subjected to this sort of treatment.

Regardless of how you choose to live, you have to send your kids to school or provide the minimum requirements for education. And on the surface, it sounds like they're "harming" their children with the lack of education they're receiving.

I "unschooled " two of my kids. They met all of the required standards of the state. Not only did they learn all of the required "public education" subjects, they worked for our business, they were socialized with people of all ages, they could go into a grocery store with a list and do all of the shopping.......I could go on and on. From the outside, a stranger could have looked at our daily lives and said that the kids were not receiving an education.

i am so glad that I am not raising children now.

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1 Jan ’16 - 8:56 am

My one regret is not homeschooling our daughter

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14 May ’16 - 10:23 am

seems like the govt just won't leave these people alone

RADCLIFF, Ky. (WDRB) -- The Breckinridge County Health Department is investigating complaints about a family that boasts about being "off-the-grid."

"People should be able to live as they want without the interference of other people using intimidation tactics to try to get them to conform," Nicole Naugler said.

Joseph and Nicole Naugler own a pet grooming business in Breckinridge County, but at home, their family lives in a makeshift cabin. They grow their own food, and their 11 children are "unschooled.” They say this simple life isn't so simple.

“They've gone after my home and my business life. Even have gone so far ... to make unsubstantiated allegations to government agencies to try to intimidate us in that manner,” Nicole Naugler said.

About a year ago, their children were taken by protective services.

"We got full custody back, and as a matter of fact, the piece of paper we got from the state … CPS … all they found was that we didn't register as home schoolers with the county school board,” Joseph Naugler said.

Now, they're facing more trouble. This time, it’s with the Health Department.

In a letter sent earlier this month, the Department says the family is dumping human waste on the ground, and if they don't stop, they could face criminal charges with the County Attorney's Office.

Environmentalist Jeremy Hinton with the Department says they have been given 20 days to stop. The deadline is next Sunday.

The family claims they have a self-composting toilet, but he says they don't.

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