"Advocates Seek To Legalize Home Schooling" 1985

"Parents who teach their children instead of sending then to school will renew their push Monday for a state law legalizing homeschooling," began the news article in the Spokesman-Review, Jan 27th, 1985.  Note the verb... "teach."  It is not "want to teach,"  but "teach."

Yes, parents were home educating... teaching their own children at home and NOT sending them to someone else's care and tutelage each day.  Yes, parents were being told this was "illegal," but these parents were not simply keeping kids home from school for convenience sake, not because they had some preference or because they were interested in doing anything illegal.  They were teaching their kids at home because it was a conviction of their heart and from this came the legalities of homeschooling that we have today!

What is your conviction?

 

Senate OK's Instruction By Parents by Lonnie Rosenwald, 1985

From the Spokesman Review 1985:
Senate OK's Instruction By Parents by Lonnie Rosenwald,

"OLYMPIA- After two years of hearings and debate, the Senate passed a landmark bill Wednesday that would allow parents to teach their children at home."