Keep the home-school fires burning: despite legislative problems, regulatory hurdles, media attacks, and other affronts to the home-schooling movement, home schooling continues to gain in popularity and strength.(EDUCATION) From: The New American | Date: August 22, 2005| Author: Gilmore, Jodie | COPYRIGHT 2005 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Thomas Jefferson once said that the "price of freedom is eternal vigilance." That has never been more true than in the case of the freedom to home-school in the U.S. In the '80s and '90s, a battle was fought in the courtrooms and legislatures of this country, and by 1993, it was legal to home-school in all 50 states. It was a hard-won battle, and there continues to be guerrilla warfare at work to reverse the victory. Home-school proponents must eternally watch for laws and regulati...

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