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In it. if they want to be careful about cherry picking perhaps that's who they should talk to. but the whom schooler families are in favor of robust competition. we need to teach our kids to compete at the top level and not discriminate against certain groups of kids based on paperwork. so home cooled kids need to be readmitted. math counts needs to reexamine their policy and let the home school did back into this. shannon: this is part of what math counts says. they say virtual schools, cyber schools and home schools in different states have different criteria for a student to be an official ...

Case. what's happening is math counts is singling out and really discriminating against home school kids and their efforts to crack down on the cheating. shannon: these kids have done really well. we hear about them being accepted to the service academies and doing excellent on sats. wing the national vocabulary championship and the spelling bee. this is a group of overachievers. by this one competition will be offlimits for teen participation. >> who is dominating the competition are the magnet schools. the magnet schools by definition do cherry pick because you have to meet a certain criteri...

Conservative or a republican in d.c. is how you can end up being seduced by money. >> kimberly: it happens -- do have another quick question? speak to the republicans need -- they can't lose 22 votes. is it 22 or 23 that they need to have against them -- they're playing on thin ice here, right? >> they can lose 22 from the latest math counts, they are right about there. the pressure is on a lot of these lawmakers saying they are undecided at this point saying whether they are yes or no and whether they get called out if they are no. if they leave town without doing anything about it. >> bob: t...