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Home schooling -- motivated by the notion that learning should be unpolluted by the classroom -- is an eccentricity that has become a national movement. "Pick the menu. It's your meal," intones Stephen Moitozo, a home-school parent in Auburn, Me. Upwards of 500,000 U.S. children are being schooled at home, a tenfold increase in a decade. Their ranks are still swelling. In Maine alone this year, there were 1,500 parental applications to state authorities for permission to teach children at home, in contrast to four in 1981. "We have everything from Black Muslims to Jews and one woman...
Home-school curriculum standards are even more elastic. Study programs usually are approved by local school boards, whose competence in the area may be minimal. In some cases, parents must submit detailed outlines of proposed courses. In others, school boards adopt a laissez-faire approach that takes on faith the commitment and competence of the parent-instructors...
EDUCATION: Parent-Teachers Association...
...certain extent," Breen says, "[My name is] kind of reflective of the way I grew up. I've adopted my parent's values. I've come to appreciate its significance. My parents were always trying to achieve a lifestyle more in touch with nature. I don't think I'd be the same with any other name...
Behold every parent's worst nightmare: the six-year-old TV addict. He watches in the morning before he goes off to school, plops himself in front of the set as soon as he gets home in the afternoon and gets another dose to calm down before he goes to bed at night. He wears Bart Simpson T shirts, nags Mom to buy him Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys and spends hours glued to his Nintendo. His teacher says he is restless and combative in class. What's more, he's having trouble reading...