Virginia homeschooling parents say state standard testing 'doesn't feel right' for their kids

A Virginia couple who has been homeschooling their children is petitioning to be exempt from a local policy requiring documentation of their studies, including standardized testing, on religious grounds WSET-TV reported."Being subjected to the test itself makes them feel like they are being scrutinized," Stephanie Dent told WSET. "For them, spiritually, right now, it doesn't feel right."
Dent and her husband, Jeff Dent, have been home-schooling their children since 2012 and are Universalists. State law allows local school boards to decide whether to grant religious exemptions for homeschooled students.
Up until this year, the Dents provided officials in Campbell County with standardized test records to satisfy the county's mandate for evidence that their children's education was progressing.
"Aside from reading, writing and arithmetic everything else is done as much as humanly possible in real life," Jeff Dent told WSET. His wife added that their studies include both prayer and meditation.
"A lot of it happens in vivo when you're outside with the chickens and you hear a breeze go through the trees," she said.

Keeping them stupid makes them easier to control, you know