Home Schooling Draws A New Class of Parent; Quality Joining Morality as Key Issue From: The Washington Post | Date: April 24, 1998| Author: Fern Shen | Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Ask people like Robin Hartman why they educate their children at home, and they won't preach about how public schools lack spirituality or values, the traditional complaints of home-schooling proponents.

They gripe about big class sizes, unwieldy school bureaucracies and dumbed-down curriculums geared to statewide tests. When she began teaching her children in September, the Montgomery County mother of two recalled, she was "almost embarrassed to admit it to people at first."

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