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Home is no place for schoolWed Sep 3, 6:49 AM ET By Dennis L. Evans  The popularity of home schooling, while not significant in terms of the number of children involved, is attracting growing attention from the media, which create the impression that a "movement" is underway. Movement or not, there are compelling reasons to oppose home teaching both for the sake of the children involved and for society. Home schooling is an extension of the misguided notion that "anyone can teach." That notion is simply wrong. Recently, some of our best and brightest college graduates, responding to the altruistic...

The Education Intelligence Agency NEA Convention Coverage -- July 5, 2003 1) One Word in Home-Schooling Resolution Causes Long Debate. The pace picked up today and delegates to the 2003 National Education Association Representative Assembly worked through lunch to make up for lost time. The final count of new business items is 70 -- well below average -- and the delegates completed amending the NEA resolutions today without too much trouble. The most contentious amendment involved the deletion of a single word in Resolution B-69, which deals with home-schooling. The resolution had a sentence that read: “The Association also believes...

-To public-school stalwarts crusading to hunt down and browbeat homeschool parents, I’m firmly in your corner - with one concession: Equal grilling time for homeschoolers. I’ll get to that idea in a minute. But let’s first look at the public-school assault. The bloodhounds were let loose by Bruce Dennison, regional superintendent of schools for Bureau, Stark and Henry counties. His inquisition squads - a truancy officer and (sometimes) two cops - pounded on doors of 24 homeschool families, demanding attendance and curriculum information. Kids got scared. One parent bawled hysterically. A father reported that a truancy officer threatened, "I can...