Virginia law in a nutshell, and a little more

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I believe this article is meant to be ‘about’ homeschooling, but instead, it is a recitation of legal constraints on home education in Virginia. The single comment on the piece is about an addition to the constraints that doesn’t appear in law.

Parents Say Home Schooling ‘Rewarding,’ 29 March 2008, Rocktown Weekly, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Student Requirements By Law

Necessary Parent Qualifications

Making The Choice

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One Response to Virginia law in a nutshell, and a little more

  1. Valerie on April 4, 2008 at 11:23 am

    Another follow-up from the Rocktown Weekly.

    Home-Schoolers Keep Eye On California, 29 March 2008, Rocktown Weekly, Harrisonburg, Virginia

    Although Dee Dee Dean is not a licensed teacher, she has taught elementary school classes for the past seven years.

    Dean, 38, of Harrisonburg neither has a degree in education nor formal training as an instructor.

    Rather, she is a mother who decided when her oldest child was ready to enter kindergarten to forgo traditional schooling and instead take his education into her own hands.

    Since then, Dean, who has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from James Madison University, has home-schooled not only her oldest child, but also her two younger children.

    None of the Dean children has ever been enrolled in a formal public or private school system.

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