Home Schooling Is Apt For Critical Parents: Teaching your children at

From: Precinct Reporter | Date: March 31, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Sharna Wilson-McMillan
Precinct Reporter
03-31-1994
Home Schooling Is Apt For Critical Parents:Teaching your children at home. is an alternative to disempowering curriculum. But there can be crippling problems in the long run.

Randolph Sims, a Muslim by faith, was discontent with the education his five children were receiving in the public schools. So, as an experiment, he and his wife decided to tech three of their children - one in elementary, one in junior high, and one in high school - at home.

"They learned more in that year than they ever learned in public school," Sims told a Black ...

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