Growing Without Schooling 31 by Patrick Farenga

GROWING

WITHOUT SCHOOLING

The fundamenralists were jubiIant ac Eheir victory. Said Sheridan Road Princinal BiIL Swain: "\"Je knew our position was strongLy supported by the Bi bl e, tale thought we had the Constitution on our side. Buc I didn't expecc to get a favorabLe decision." WilLiam BentLey BalL, a Leading constitut ionaL Iawver who argued for the cwo schooLs, caLLed the -ludgment "very strong on reLigious libercy. cLarifyjng the righl Lo teach and the riehc to learn." WhiLe the decision applies onLy !LU- r,: ^Li ^^- rL r"d]/ rrnfl uence other rr rLLLrtsdr" states. As independent Christian school s have nrol i ferated over Lhe n:cf

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; 2L5-255-4058. June 28-30: 7th AnnuaI Kephart Memorial Child Study Cencer Symposium, Univ. of Northern CoLorado, Aspen/Snowmass, CO. Contact: Dr. Roberr Reinert, KMCSC, UNC, Greeley Co 80639; 303-351-2691. Aug, I -2: ChiId Devel opment Symposium, Assoc. for Research & Enlightenment, Virginia Beach, VA. Contact: Robert Witt, PO Box 595, Va. Bch. 2345r; 804-428-3588. Anyone who wanEs to coordinaLe ofhcr neel- inqs or lectures around Ehese times and locations should contact me directly. - Peg Durkee 19341

wide - so have conflicts with state SUCCESS IN MICHIGAN authori t ies . In Nebraska , the Rev. Cheryl lruslman (MI) wrote: Everett Sileven of LouisvilLe was jailed four L imes in 1982 For defying ...Jacob went through kindergara courE decision requiring him to FÎ ^^+ .,^^L,,F FLi wt rt yEd, uuL L"rr ysdr hire state-approved teachers for his ' home. It was so much teaching him aC Faith Bapcist SchooI. ln MassachuPasier fhan T rhouPht iL would be. nonnlp in all Frrorvona had a setEs, Assistant AtCorney Ceneral We wrote a Ietter to the SuperMaria Looez has asked a civil court wonderful time, above aLL the chiLdintendent of t.he Kent County interro impose a $100-a-day fine on two ren. lr was lovely, as is usuaL at We were mediate school districC... ministers who operate the Grace Bible home schooL gatherings, to see chiLdtold that if we wanted to we could Church Christian SchooI in Dracut ren of many ages playing happily home bound student. enroll Jacd5 as a unLil they agree to reporE the names, togecher, the big ones looking ouE This would mean he could receive aIL ases and residences of their 30 stufor the Little ones - a thing that the maLerial that the first g,raders dents. [n Ma ine, a major case wiII be Eoo rarely happens with chiLdren who F-^^ T^ -:-rv !r5 !Lscr receive this we t ri ed i n February. The i ssue, wheLher go to school [,,1e're looking f orward would meeL Lhe first grade teacher the teachers at the Bangor Baptist Lo the next ones ( second Thursday after school Let Church School and some 20 other Chris- cverv ol-her Trresdav every month, 6-8 PM). L^P rr,"P -r--le, wd> so we've L"dL fian schooLs need to have state aPproWherever chere are a number of val and whether Ehe schools must main- been doing this for the Last month home schooLing families and a convenianr nl aao Far fhom rn mpal ii miohr and a halt. Tt has worked out perfecC tain and report educational records... ho Filn r^ h.\/a roo,,l ar orrheri noc because the school is happy and we're ln the Michigan Erial, the issue happv. . . rurned out of teacher certification I ike this. as often as seems desirto t-o be more of an embarrassment able and convenient. The advantage of Chan to the Chriscian having them at a reguLar tine and state officials niaec is- of corrrse. LhaE it saves schools. Education experts couLd noE FAMILY MEETS LEGISLATOR agree on which standards the Christhe crouble and expense oI sending From John Boston (CA): tian teachers needed to follow, nor ouE nocices, and also lets people pLan to attend weLL ahead of time. If couLd they prove any link beEween ceri r: f i 6A iarnhorc ,nd o^î danido r..l^ rhic nleecp . . .l^Jhen you spoke, John, in Ana^1,,^.F ^h hpin in 1981 vnrr ncnfisned it would Noted Judge Hoichkiss, a lormer pubLeE us know - and teLl us how it be helnFrrl i F our lesislators knew lic school teacher: "The overwhelming works out. about home schooling. You suggested evidence shows thaE teacher cercificaOnly one other word - try to just compeWeLl that's ensure teacher we visit Ehem. does not meetEion avoid mak ing chese "business what we did. Eencv and mav even inhibiE iE." Since i ngs, " complete wi th agenda, etc . I first contacted our state senaeach student who Leaves a Michigan Just have them a nice occasion for for's nfIice rrvinq fo find ouC if he public schooL to attend a Christian people to get to know each other and havp a qood rime rocether. - John Holt academv deorives the Local school dis- nnr,l rl ho I n n I or i F., ,rhw enma cchnnl were contacEing some home distrjcts crict 6t about $2,OOO in state aid, fhe irrdce also observed that state schools on their legal sEatus and others were not. His office said they were hardLy disincerested officials IMPORTANT MICHIGAN RULING would get back to me. A few days suardians of educaEion. He caLLed later, I goc a call from one of his Time macazine. l/I0/83: itate reguLation of private schooLs sfaff inforninq re as to the man who "an incredible confLict of interest." I could talk to about private schools intend to ...Michigan officials . . , In a strong, unambi guous in l-hp SrAIF Denf. of Education. More riocician a Minhiorn i,,doe roa{firnoA appeal Judge Hotchkiss's verdict ' importanEly she asked if I would like Says Assistant Attorney General Richthe First AmendmenL guarantee oI sepan appointment to taLk to the senaaration of church and state by exempt- ard Cartner: "The state now has no fnr T <:id vps rv qon would I ike to process Co approve nonPubl ic ing private Christian schooLs from qrafe silnervi sion of their curriculum meet him to learn about srate governschool s." Part oI Michigan's compul6vnofi6n.6 aho d- -^-r rcdr-Pc, ^^*-^nru" L^Ps, sory educat ion 1aw says that parenrs and teachers. Ministers, teachers and gave us an appointmenE, h.'anfe nf tho Rridoennrl Ranl ict must send children to state-approved My wife and I, with our son (age schools. According, Lo GarLner, there Academy and the Sheridan Road Chris13). went fo his oIFice about 20 is now a legal doubc as tc whether tian School, both near Saginaw, had miles away. His secretary showed us the compulsory attendance requiremenE charged thaL attempLs by the staLe's into his office and introduced us. is legal. . . board of education Lo supervise curThe senator was dressed Ieisurely, as riculum and teacher quaLifications rnrl ho relzorl lc rn ro lew hr, violaEed their reLigious freedom. cifl ino in c.ma cnmFnrrrhlo lalnoo Judge Ray Hotchkiss agreed, rul ing JOHN'S COMING SCHEDULE chairs in one area of his office. We that the board, by imposing iLs secuEold him of our son's unusual schoolFeb. 21, 1983: Guest of Honor, lar sEandards of education on reliing arrangement, home Learning. and Harvard Dinner Series, Cambridge, MA. "'-'erfered wi Lh 5LL'uuraL'6' 5ruu5 oF orrr nrivAte schnol . He wanted to nl,inriFfs' cnncrifrrrional riohr fo Apr. 9 (rent. ): Homeschool ing rr e.ij Froolw avprnico rhair hear from our son about what he did -^liî^meetings and Lectures, Chico CA area. aE home. Our son told him about his Contact: Richard Roth, 703 SaLem St, Hotchkiss: rrThis courE fails to see a bicycLes and model airplanes he Chico CA 95926; 916-345-9682. in requircompel I ing state interest buiLt. He told hlm about his Boy Apr, 30: 6th Mass. Area La Leche ing nonpublic schools to be of the -- ^"blic Scout group, his religion classes, -''u dr pu League Conf., WaIsh Middle SchooL, schools in and his Humane Society volunteer Framingham MA. Conlact: Roberta JaISuch a scheme does Ehe samâ‚Ź disrrict, work, lle talked, informally. for bert, 8 Brown St, Ipswich MA 01938; not ensure even a minimum degree of close to 50 minutes. tle found out the quaLity oF educar ion, " Hotchkiss , how- 6L7 -356-1 345 . did rha cfriorc riohr r^ senator knows people \re do so we had May 3: International Reading 'rnhnl.l some things in common. Assoc . meet ing, Anaheim CA. Contacts : impose on Ehe Christian schools He invited our son (and us) to CaroLe Vinograd-Bause1l, 807 Beaverhealth and safety requirements, to come up to Sacramenco after the new bank Cir., Towson l{D 2L2O4, or Jack which they had never objected, had our first Open House at Ehe GllS office - a great success. I had thought rhaL perhaps, because of Ehe rather short notice, very few peooLe would come. but there were twelve or so families there, probably forty We

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legislative session starts and he would personally Eour the Capitol wiLh us, He was very interested in our son learning about government and gave him a booklet on our state's constituEion and how a bill becomes Law. Al1 in all a very pleasurable experience, both for our son and us. I'm sure if anyrhing about home schooling comes up in Sacramento our senaEor will feel more knowledseable and posirive about iL. We would encourage other home schoolers to do Lhis. Our IegislaEors are Ehe people who make the laws the school officials must folLowl Get them on our sidel Let Ehem know we are famiLies concerned about our childrenl..,

Mathematics, Money, Music, Newsletters , Organizat ions, Poetry, Politics, Printing, Publications, Reading, Religion, Reports, Resources, SociaL Issues, Tapes, Teaching, Tests, Teens Working, Travel, t^lork, Writing, and Young Graduates. Rachael weLcomes suggestions for future editions of the index. At John's suggestion, Mary and Mark Van Doren brought in a little table and chair for our office toddler, Anna. Our extra Eypewriter sits on i L, and somet imes Anna wi I I busy herself for a long time wiLh the machine. Mary has a neat trick of taping two sheets of paper fogether into a Loop, so Lhat no matcer how much Anna presses the rrReturn" key, she never runs out

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Department of EdiShe's in charse of Ehe "Gift-

cation, ed and Talented SpeciSI Programs" throughout Ehe sCate, and is very symDathetic fo I hc nofion of homeschooling, She would like to know how many home-schooLers Ehere are in MassachuseEts, and wouLd be wiLling to help someone do a survey of the various school districts, Would someone like Eo take on Ehis research oroiect? Yet anoEher home-schooLer' hai sold an article Eo Ehe ilMother's Children" section of The Mother EarLh News I that' s LhreE-dE-TEEEEI-fi-The JEil issue, Joshua Wood wroEe about Lhe same business sell inc sDrorf iArs rhar his morher rofa d;i" "."!uol;";; (105 Stoney #2L. Pat Stone of TMEN Mountain Rd, Hendersonville NC 28791) is always Looking for how-to articles by young people, And if, by chance he's not inLeresEed in your story, we at GWS probabLv wouLd be. e i2-year-oId reader suggesrs we nrrf in a Den-na I secf ion For kids. Werre wiLLing to do this if it doesn't take up Eoo much space. So, any children wanEing pen-paIs, send i n your name ) age, address, and, i F I-3 words ahouf vorrr hohvou want. -_rbies, interescs, lavorite auChors, e tc. We were distressed to hear that reader Rena Caudle's son Jeremy has a massive brain tumor and is not expecEed to live beyond another year or so. Rena says, "If Lhere are any readers that would I i ke to boost up a 1 i tt I e boy, cards wouLd be welcomed. Hers collecEing his cards and he's coLlecti ng scickers, too." Jeremy's address is L4l7 Fir St, Everett WA 98201. Another reader asks if we could print more about divorced homecnhnnlino

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other parent disapproves of the home-schooling. Has it ever been an issue in a custody case? Any of you who think your experiences would be useful co others. Dlease wriEe us. Someone asked" if we have any videotapes of TV programs with John HoLt. lle don'ti none of us here have any video equipment. Do any of our readers have such videoEapes, and if so, are they willing to Loan Ehen out, or can they make copies? Rachael Solem has jusE finished the 24-page index to GWS #1-30, which is available here for $2,50. She's done a Ehorough job with the help of a computer. Entries are in Ehe foLlowing caEegori es: AlEernaE ive School s, Arf

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Books Reviewed, Children Working, Colleges, CommuniEies, Contriburors, Correspondence SchooLs, Court Cases,

Curriculum. Friendly Lawyers, Cames, General, In SchooL, Language, Learning, LocaI School s & Legal Issues,

NEWS OF COURT CASES We have recently gotten word of two home-schooling courE cases lost) and a number of others pending. Of the losses, rhe bigger ivas thb Virginia State Supreme Court rul ing lL2ljl 82) against Robert and Vicky Crigg of Chesapeake. The court, using reasoning similar to California and Florida cases, said that since the Virginia compul sory educaLion Iaw has a-speci Fic

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a qualified Lutor," the Criggs could nol cl aim exempt ion by a differenE route, namely, ChaL their home was a private scho6l. How Ehis will affect other home-schoolers in Virsinia remains to be seen. The ocher loss was in Srenhpnc

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volving Terry and Vlckie RoemhiLd. do not vet have anv details on this cecrsron. Other famiLies who are beins nroqcerrrAd

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Burrow, LittLe Rock, Arkansas; Mary and Carfield Morgan of Lebanon, Cohnecticut; Bob & Jean SmiEh, AlberE Lea, Minnesota: the Warren Parker famiIy, Alexandria, Minnesot-a; Pat Baker of the SouEhside School District, San Antonio, Texas; and Tahca Ska, Poolar. Wisconsin. - DR GEORGIA REGULATIONS

[.ltt: ] ln two sEates, Georgia and MaryLand, the SEate Boards of Education have proposed regulaLions that wiLI make home-schooling difficult or impossible for most famil ies. First, the Georgia situaEion. As the AElanta Constitution of I/1,3/83, in a iT6?i6t-JZne--Faroen, reporced iL :

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number of parents who are teaching their children themselves,., The new policy wouLd further define private schools by requiring them Eo meet

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be used primariLy for instruction and musL meeL fire inspection codes, 3) At least one teacher must have a colIege degree from an accredited instituEion..."

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' ' tion for them. 2) They will probably be struck down in most or alL courts in which they are put fo the test, 3) Even iI rhey were upheld by rhe courts, they woul d noE automat ical 1y or necessarily make home school ing impossible. We should understand ourselves, and hel p the public to undersfand, that fhe first two of fhese prooosed board regul ations have nothing whafever to do with education or Learnins or even the qual i Ly oF private schools. In defending the need for these regulations, the board has 1., -^il L)/ sdru

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the status of home schooL"clarify" ing under aw, so that iE will know where and how to enforce the staters compulsory school 1aws. This word "cIari Iy" has been used in simi lar circumstances by education authorities in other sEates. In usinq the '1

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as Ehe newspaper story itsel f makes clear, they do noE want to "clarify," but to prohibiE, More specifically, they wanL Lo make privaEe school ing c^

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afford it, The public schooLs have for a long time had a kind of silent bargain wirh the r i chest five pcrcenL of Lhe parents of this councry. They have said, in effect, rrWe will let \'^,, ra..h .,nrrv nhi . I. i*. en any way you want. iI vou wil 1 give us a monooolv y)7". " Unfr L recenLLv. over !he oLner Efif si s w-F -had Tappened. Pr ivate schools, meaning schools in buildings nol rrce.l fnr nihar n, rrnncac :n.i cteffo.l hrr naid ipr.har< hrrro haan <o awnonci\/a rhrl uifh Four aw.dnfi^nc

only affluent parents could afford them. Almost all the private schooLs started by moderate or Low income parents in the past twenty years have failed for lack of money, and those that have survived for any length of Cime have almost aLL been rich ones, hi^h

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state and local public education authorities have never interfered with lhese rich schools. They could hire any teachers they wanted, not just those with education desrees and teacher's credentials. Thev could teach any kind of curricuLum they wanted! or none at all. SEate laws might mandafe courses in state history, or health, or (as in N.Y. ) the dangers oF al chohol i sm i rich pr i vate schools ignored such Laws. In Ehe fourEeen years I taught in private schools we were never once visited or inspected by publlc education authorifips. Ri.h nri\,rlp."hooIS do have tshdi r

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cies. but these 6re to allay IJH: I Home schooL families and parents and teachers involved in small church-based schooLs are bandinq fooel-hpr t^ irv ro bIock CheSe

growing numbers of home schooLing fami I i es. may try to make similar regulafions, we might look at these a bit more closely. About Chem, three things can be said: 1) There is not

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voLe on the policy on Feb. 10, so by the cime you read fhis they wil I have decided either to pass these reguLations or an amended version of them, or, if public pressure is strong enough, as we hope will be the case, to Let the whole matter drop. We will tell you whaE happened in CWS #32. Meanwhile, because education officials in other states, thrown

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down. More and more people who twenty or even Een years vtould never have considered sending Eheir children to private schools are now doing so. the Despire hard times and inIIation. median income oF parenLs of private school children has been dropping every year now for a number oF years. One reason is that more and more paronfc

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schooling is what the-puETTc school authorities are trying Eo stop, since it threatens thelr effective monopoly over the education of Lhe greaL majoricy oF American children. They say tsh.ts

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schooling EhaE worries them, bul whaL reaIly worries them is iLs low price - Perhaps Ehe best evidence LhaE there is no educational need whatever for these regulat i ons , I eL a l one any compel Iing need, comes from Georgia icself, One of the books on our List iS IhE PETERSON'S GUIDE TO INDEPEN_ DENT STUDY THROUGH INSTRUCTION, which

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learned it, we will give you fulL academic credit for it." This shouLd be enough to dispose o.[ any idea that effecEive Iearning can onLy take place in certain speciaL places where nothing eLse takes pIace, and in the company of some minimum number o[ peonlo

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nrrr fopefher musf be cl ose ro haI F a I I i on. and ni pht well be more than EhaL. Beyond that. there are right now many thousands of families in AId5Kd ^l ^^1.^ A^ --i

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automatically close down aIl home schooling in the state. The regulaCions say chere must be at least fifteen children in a school. but iE chorrld he easv for more than fifCeen Georgia home school ing families to resisc.er their chi Ldren in one or moie schools, perhaps the Horizons School which already exisfs and in which many of them are already registered. Beyond thaE, chere is no reason why home schooling Fami I ies could not register their children with each others' schools, so thaL Fami Iy A wouLd have in its school Ehe children Frmjtioc

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For forolgn basgd and stateslde familles ln axlst6nco slnce 1963! Serulng thousands of lamllles wlth tull cours€s. Not Jusl Math, English, Soclal Studl63, Scl€nc€ and R€adlng bul full courses Inctudlng Penmanshlp, PhonlcE, Sp€lllng, ReadlnO for Meanlng, Evo,utlon vs. Sci€nc€, Hsalth afld BiOle and a Klndergarten coursa whlch ls vsry slfectlve In molor coordination ttalnlno and Roadlng. Courses Include a tull

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home in which children were growing up. certainLy any home school , was

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vlswDolnts. A balanced coursa wlth written assionmsnls but also tlms to Interacl and dlscuss wlth teacher so that tsachof can adiust studenl sp6€d and resDond io n€€ds. Student does not lust wrlia answers to consumable booklels 8ll day- Prolesslonal advlssm€nl avallable at moderals cost and coufs€s can be le'used lor upcomlng stud€nts. Mlsslonary and larg€ lamlly dlscounts Cosl ol Kindsroarten - 392.00 Grades 1 lo 8 - $238.00Internatlonal Instltuto has also asslsted many mlsslon schools and statesldo schools lo starl and become in' de9endsnt by th€ second ysar wlth 6 full complement of texts and lesson plans at a leasonabl6 cost.

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leacher and stud6nt textbogks (some coursBs have 25 books) from repulablo publlshers scroensd comolement

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for violent crimes, but instead must let Ehem back on the streets or. as is common.

who have been arrested

GRo}JING l,iITH0UT SCH00LING is published six times a year by Holt Associates, 729 Boy'lston Street, Boston l4A 02.l'l6, at $15/yr. Date of .l983. lssue, Feb. I, Application to 14ail at

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sentence. We cannot say too often that our courts have far more important and indeed urgent things fo do than pursue conscientious parents who A^i

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...Here is a checklis! of thinss each oF you can do to hel p in the days ahead: | ) Cal I your IocaI I egi s1 ators in Lhe Ceorgia Assembly. Let Lhem know what has happened and ask them Eo call their sEafe board representa(provide them Eive for their district with a phone number) and tell them !o voEe no on the proposed policy. This is where the real power is going to come from. If you know someone or have a friend that knows someone in the CapitoL or on the Board of Education! leE us know.., 2J CaLL aLl l0 members of the Board of EducEETon and let lhem know why you are opposed to Ehe proposed ruling. Be careful not to atEack openly the public schools. Calling is o.ino

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cause they can easily overlook Letters which Lhey delegate to their secretaries to take care of, If you cannot call, rhen do write everyone a letEer. 3) Sit down and compose a sincere IeEEer for your local newspaper.

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image oF home schooling. If you are wi 1I ing Co be inCerviewed, contact local radio and TV staEions and let them know whaE is happening and why you oppose it. We need favorable pub-

iciry. 4) Cet signatures on the petition thaE is enclosed. Make copies if you need more. Refurn aIi petiEions to PhilLis BosEar before Feb. 5, so they can be presented co the school board at cheir meeting. 5) Duplicate this material as many times as you are able, and pass 1

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als Ehat vou mav know Ehat are interested in tn. tarity and basic rights of citizens. , . 6 ) l.le need money, [,,ihatever you can donate, please send. Money is needed to cover aIl the printing ^^-F-

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7) Actend the meetins of home schoolers and interested aitizens on Sat. Jan. 22.,. Bring copies of any letters you have written. Please share them with us so we can benefit from your ideas. . . 8) Artend the State School Board of Education MeeEings on Wed. Feb. 9 and Thur. Feb. 10.,. Our numbers will carry a lot of weight aE Ehese meeEings... Bring as many others as you

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lifestyles, or other differences divide us. We must sEand solidly together on Ehis one issue ...There is noE much time. We need co move as quickly and deLiberateLy as possibLe. . .

Connie Shaw, editor of the Georgia home-schooling newsIeCLer, A DiIForani

home.

Do noc let

ACTION BY GA. HOME-SCHOOLERS

Infomtilon packec, including a list of recommended actions, that she sent to Georqia home-schoolers in order to fight lhe proposed regulacions. It seems like such a Ehorough job, eqncc i al I v fnr hai no 6166s on short

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MARYLAND REGULATIONS At the same time. the Marvland

StaEe Board of EducaEion is pr6posing even more sEringent regulations. MANfrEd SMiEh Of ThC MARYLAND HOME EDUCATI0N ASSOCIATION tells us that home-schoolerS will ha ar fhp nrrhlin hearing Jan.26 to testify against Ehem. The Baltimore Sun of 1116/83, in a story-Ey-GafT-TEFpbell, subheadlined "StaEe move would virtually ol iminAlA

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ized the regulations and added some interesling comment. We quote, in part: . . . Parents' freedom to teach children at home insEead of sendins Ehem to school will virtually end if t.he StaEe Board Of Education adopts a proposed revision of its bylaws. A drafE byLaw wouLd allow only parents with college degrees or certifinriinn

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children to do home teaching. The drafE also would require children to receive at home a minimum of 180 days, or 1,080 hours, of instrucEion in courses such as EngIish, Ianguage arLs, maLhemaLics, science and social studies. These home courses would have to be described to schooL officials in a written curriculum citing specific ob iect ives and submiETAd:T;-TFe Tocal + school superintendent for approval. ParenEs Eeaching aC home would also have to provide books and malerials comparable to those found in pubIic school sysEems IJH: the regulaF; ^-^

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superidcendent wouLd determine how often children should be tested Eo measure their progress. . , LasE January, a Harford county coupLe were refused permission to Eeach thei r 7-year-old daughter aE home. The counEy school board voted with one abstenEion Eo unhold SuoerinEendent Al lonso A. Rob-rty's decision and ordered Miguel and Ellen AndrioLo to enrol1 fheir dauphtet Zoe in school immediate I y. . . Mrs. Andriolo is not a colLese graduaEe and Eherefore would noc {ua1ify as a home teacher under the proposed bylaw, but she said she felE she did a good job Leaching her daughter af home in spite of that. "Mv daushEer tested Ehree srade Ievels aDove her own." Mrs. Andrrolo -rldl--SahmT-offTEfai s te s Eed Zoe afEer she had been Eaught for a year and a half at home... Dr. RoberEy said he EoEally supported the proposed bylaw. rrThe qualifications are ctsrinoanf

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Rabbi Kenneth B. Block, vice president of the Harford county school board, said he was equailv opposed to rhe byIaw... "I fhink-ir's Eoo restrictive and unnecessary. They're trying Co legislaEe home instruction out of existence." Rabbi Block said. , , He said. , . he bel ieves families should have the option of teaching at home i f they wish. . . W. Eugene Craybeal, presidenC of the Harford county school board, sayinq he sooke As An individual cifizen... said he too believes parents should have Ehe choice of feachins at home. rrBut this bylaw Che state board has in the eJorks is to sErenethen its control over home teaching, The trend should be to Loosen its hold,rrMr. Graybeal said... IJH: Some comment on this parficular story. It seems very likely Ehat a reasonable court would rule that Ehe Harford county schooL board erred in not allowing Mrs. Andriolo Eo continue Eeaching her own daughEer, since she was obviously working more Ehan twice as effectively as Che schools, And, though a court would noE say this, mosE reasonable ciEizens would further conclude L) that Dr. Roberty was not competent to irrdqe fhe nrral i fi.Af i ons of a home Eeacher, since he so obviously judged vrrongly in this case, and/or 2\ Dr. Roberty and Ehe Harford county school board were clearly noE acting in good faiEh, EhaE is, in Ehe besE interests ^f

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since two members of the Harford

counEy board said in these hearings EhaE they thoughc people shouLd be able to teach their own children, how AiA

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board voEed 3-0 against Mrs. Andriolo? In quoting the news story, I underl ined Ehe words "c i ting spec i fic objectives." They refer Eo a certain kind of meaningless school jargon every teacher's lesson plan is supposed to IisE "Objectives,r'In many ts^^^h^--^^. ron"i ?a.l i^ I i ci --^ LEdgrr<r ^1 Prduâ‚Źr, both "Outcomesrr and rrobiectives.t' and have to do verbaf-Eandsirings Co make them sound different, since there is in fact no reaL difference. But the schools could use this clause as a vJay of penalizing parents for noc using the approved privaEe jargon. Of course, top rated private schools and colleges do not use Ehis kind of jargon at all. MORE LOCAL NEWS

For addresses of the orsani-zations mentioned, see Ehe DirEctory in #30, or our 'rHome-Schooling Resource LisE" ($l). If you have a IocaL newsletter, vJe'd really appreciate being on your mailing list; thal way we can Let the resL of our readers know whaE yourre doing, CALIFORNIA: We List the San Juan Ridge--1ii-i6n-SCFool District in Cal ifornia as a "Friendly School DisGWS

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tor, Marilyn DeVore, has just told us inc address is that althoug.h iLs.. mail r'"'b

in Nevada CiEv. Ehe district is actual I y in North- San Juan, I 6 mi l esaway. She writes, "Our Nevada City mailing address has presenEed some

but it needs Eo be stringent. Otherwise, we'I1 have everybody Ceaching Ldr, - PdrerLLs, ^*.^i^'?onfe everywhere with no specific curricuproblems. A family reading your pubLiErd"sP-and oEher interested Darties, Lumr" Dr. Roberty said. cation moved co Nevada City, only to 9) If you are sebking permission neonle don't like uniformifind EhaE the school district "Some Ehere to speak ouE aE Ehe school board meet- ty, but when ! you're running s chool does not ofler IndependenE SEudy..." !L^l ^ ,.L^* ings, please bring a copy oF your >y5Le,,,r wrrdL y,,ou need Connie Warthan in San Jose "he prepared speech to the meeting on the added. writes, rrln the Bay Area we have been Friondc

GROWING WITHOUT SCHOOLING

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meeting for almosE a year now,.. Tc is an informal picnic and anybody inEerested in unschooling is welcome. Date is second Saturday of Ehe monEh.rr For location, caLL Connie at 408-266-L494 or the Blomquists. 408243-7870.

CONNECTICUT: From Jeanine Lupinek: "As a resuTE of a picnic held ac home of Madalene and Tom Murphy the last summer, many Famil ies have gotten together and the Murphys are putting out a newsletter, Hearth Notes. Laura Pritchard and I hetE-puI togeEher an information packet on home school ing in Connecticur, which contains the guidelines on home education from the sfate department, our Letler to the supE., an excensive list of resources, and names of homeschoolers. l,Je have to ask $2 f or Ehe packeE to cover princing and mailing expenses. . . " FLORIDA: Ann Mordes writes in the l-LAsH newstecter, | /6Ji ".1 have received manv telephone caLls and Letters from ali over- Ehe state since October. from people who are complaining of harrassment by truanE officers, FLASH was happy co supply these many people with copies of our letters from the Governor's offlce, and the Health and Rehabilitative Services letter which'1et my husband and me off the hookr here in Jackson County IGWS #28]. Indeed these leCLers have helped every home schooler who needed and used them." ILLINOIS: The Demmins sent us a reporl--iJ5mTTEed to the state Board of Education, dated 6124182, called "lnformational Report and Preliminary RecommendaEions Regarding the Srare's Rolrrianchin

Ill

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Schools." It recommended that the State rradd ro the current list of ranrrirod (

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demic terrn of 176 days or 880 cLock hoursl and nondiscriminaLory poli-

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fate of these recommendations. olease let us know. KENTUCKY: According to some newsr--t

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en, Ehe sEaEe Superintendent of Public Instruction told the local districEs Lhat they were responsible for bringing 1ega1 acEion against parents whose children attended unaooroved schools. and officials in at Ieast Ewo districts have starced Eruancy proceedings againsC families in Christian schools. However, the Rev. B.C. CiIlpcnip hac filad srrir aoainci fha state board in U.S. District Court. MASSACHUSETTS: Deborah Armer, 36 Shore-iEsT-Drl--E-Tal mouth MA 02 536, writes, "Some of us here in the Fa1mouth area are now caLlins ourselves ThE CAPE COD HOMESCHOOLIN. COOPERA-

TIVE, At lasE we have a name for ourselves (and some discounEs when we go \' "e w do d SruuP/ consist of Pr4uqr eighE families at the moment; six actualLy have their children ouE of school, the others are not yet of school age. We are beginning to get lnfs.F nhonc cellq From others in surrounding Eowns, as weLl... We have finished putEing out our second monEh1

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Mem-

Toni O'Leary (405-332OKLAHOMA HOME-

was to have its firsE meetins on Feb. 12. PENNSYLVANIA: A SEory in The Fall tTI-PEl--nnschool ers itletwork beganwir@ PhiIIips: "What is defeat? Nothing buf educarion, nothing but the Iirst step to something better," and then went on to say, "This was borne ouE in the experiences of Ehe Rattenni family in Canonsburg. Jean and Richard had appLied to their local superintendenE about homeschooling their two daughters. The reply was negative because of their lack of teaching certificate, Drawing deep gulps of faith, they set abouE collecting recommendations from locaL elementary faculty, regionaL overseer of their church, etc. Based on these, the SCHOOLERS ASSOCIATION

superintendent

REVERSED

sroN. . . "

HIS DECI-

TEXAS: The TEXAS HOME EDUCATION

1I12 MilLsprings, Richardson TX 75080) is planning seminars on how to defend your own case in courc, and is considering submiLcing a prohome-schooling bill in the state IegCOALITION-(

isLature.

Jerry Minaz of the a newsleLter for the VERMONT ALTERNA(P0 Box 74, TIVE EDUCATION NETWORK Hinesburg VT 05461). He says, "The woman who typed up Ehe mailing list is about to start home-schooLins her granddaughter when she takes hei on a three-month trip down south.rl VERMONT:

Shakeiliountain SchooL has started

AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER

The Dec. 82 issue of OEher Wavs. Arrc .- Y"' ner Jvr- f rom ALTERNFI-I-V-EEDUCATI0N RESOURCES GROUP, c/o Heather Keck, 22 RLx St., Glen Iris 3146, I

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Victoria, Australia] has much exci!ing news of aLcernative school and home school developments in that country. NoE only is home schooling continuing Eo grow in the state of Victoria (where the city of Melbourne is Iocated), but it is spreading Eo and growing in other slaEes; New South [.,JaIes, Southern Australia, QueensLand, WesEern Australia - which covers mosE of rhe country. Lorraine and Adrian Doesburg, with whom I had i nf6roct

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phone conversation a few months ago, are the resource peopLe for WesEern Australia - write them aL P.O. Roleystone, W.A. 6111, In Queensland che

contact person is Lyn CargiIL,

Henson Rd., Salisbury 4107, Other Wavs. which at first +..

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concerned itself mainly with doings in Ehe sLate of VicEoria, seems to have become the Australian national newsletter of alternaEive and home schooLing - at leasc, I don't know of any other. Any who are interested in Ehe growth of home schooling in AusEra1ia, and certainly any who think they might be visiting or moving there in Ehe near fuEure, should subscribe. Al-^

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...Ed feels the Legal Insurance For Education (LIFE) program is working very weLL as a proEection for home study families from intimidation and/or prosecuEion. 0f Ehe 52 families who have caken ou! policies, onLy Ewo have made claims, In most casPs- srrons letters From Ed to threaEening school officiaLs have

averted Legal action.

The rates are the same as orisinally explained in TidbiEs #8: $80 i yerr- for' up to g20,O00--6ierage, $40 a year for up Eo $10,000 coverage, and $20 a year up to $5,000... MORE NEWS FROM CARVER From PaE MonEgomery (MI):

IDR:l In January 1981, Ed Nagel

and Ehe NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

LEGAL SUPPORT OF ALTERNATIVE

FOR THE SCHOOLS

(PO Box 2823, SanEa Fe NM 87501)

started an insurance program for home-schooling families concerned abouL facing legal acEion. I'Je asked how it was going, and Lu Vorys wroEe on Ed's behalf:

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dent of Carver Schools in Carver,

MassachusecEs, is very supporEive of home schooling, In Ehe lasE rwo years

he has gone before his board four times and recommended that families in hi s disErict do home schooling, .r onlara's Home ^--^. cr ^^r 1-. u!! d"u, 5PEsrrrudrry, Based Education Program. He called the other day regarding one oF Ehe fami lies and was lavish in his praise ^t u!

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He was also seriously concerned abouE another famiLy in his discrict who were noE following any program

and were apparenEly feeding him misinformation about their home schooling. He seemed genuinely disturbed by this in view of the fact that he is known Eo support home schooling. You will probabLy recal I IGWS #?l I rhrr Carttor ic fhe nl:cp whcre two or three years ago, a judge ordered a family of a frequentlyabsent-from-schooL teenager to enroLl i- .1 ^..1 r Pr u5! o,,, - and he also

ordered the schooL district

the bil1.

pay

COMMISSION FOR ADS

As you can see, our campaign Co display and classified advertising in GWS is off to a good sEarc. Many thanks to all of you who bought Ehese ads. In order to make GWS a's close as possible to self-supporEing, and less dependenc than it is on the very uncertain and declining lecture business, we want to increase this advertising as fast as we can; our EargeE, which we hope to reach in a geE

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each issue, which by thaE time would be 28 and more probably 32 pages. We plan to solicit ads actively from this office; Pat Farenga will be our Director of Advertising. But because we are small and already very busy, we will only be able to do a limited amounE of this. What we would like is to have as many readers as possibl e solicir ads for us, from any businesses chey may know of or read about EhaE they think might I ike Eo advertise in GWS. To encourage you, we make this offer: for every display ad Ehat you recruit for us (from some^na

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