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- From: mlc@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Matt Carlson ( Sun ))
- Subject: Homeschooling in Texas
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.211151.588@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- Summary: Leeper Case revisited may cause homeschooling Texans heartache.
- Keywords: Homeschool
- Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:11:51 GMT
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- Several years back, there was a case in Texas (Leeper vs. Board of Education)
- which established the legality of homeschooling in Texas. The ruling declared
- that education must be adequately provided in five areas of study:
-
- (1) Reading
- (2) Writing
- (3) Arithmetic
- (4) History
- (5) Citizenship
-
- As long as it can be shown that these five areas of study have been tought
- there is no legal action that the state of Texas can take against one who
- homeschools (i.e. a warrant doesn't do officials any good).
-
- This case, however, is being revisited at the Texas Supreme Court in Jan.
- of 1993. Freedom to homeschool in Texas may be hurt by the outcome of
- this decision. If you are a Texan who is either currently homeschooling
- or thinking about doing it in the future, I urge you to apply pressure
- to your local and state representatives to create legislation which
- supports homeschooling. With Governor Ann in there with "institutional"
- reformation, our individual educational rights are at stake. Don't get
- me wrong....Ann can do whatever she likes with our wonderful system--
- I just ask to retain the freedom to homeschool as Thomas Edison and
- Albert Einstein had the opportunity to do.
-
-
- ---My opinion only---
-
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