The Charlotte Conservative News article Sharron Angle’s political activism started in the Home School movement once again uses her background to move her story up the search engine searches, playing off a George Will commentary in the Washington Post about her homeschooling her son which appeared July 4: Candidate nobody is not to be underestimated:
“Her campaign began, in a sense, three decades ago, when a judge annoyed her.
“When her son was depressed about having to repeat kindergarten — “He was a 6-year-old dropout” — she decided on home schooling, which Nevada law permitted. But a judge construed the law to require that parents who home-school must live at least 50 miles from a public school.
“She and many kindred spirits descended on Carson City to get the Legislature to correct this. One legislator, irritated by such grass-roots impertinence, said, “If I’d known there would be 500 people here instead of 50 and it would take five hours instead of 30 minutes, I would have thrown it [the legislation] in my drawer, and it would never have seen the light of day.” Angle asked a cowboy standing next to her, “Can he do that?” The cowboy said yep. She has been politically incandescent ever since.”
mamaraby said on August 2, 2010
This is the second (or so) article posted about Sharon Angle which I find a bit puzzling. I don’t consider her to be a good example of a homeschooler – and that’s not just because I disagree with her strongly on a great number of things. Isn’t there another example out there that you can find to write on that’s a bit more eloquent or at the very least more capable of engaging in discussion instead of just focusing on those who already agree with her?
Regardless, I’m glad for the diversity amongst homeschoolers. I’m glad I’m not that only non-conservative in the lot.
Helen Hegener said on August 2, 2010
You’re far from the only non-conservative. Regardless of what the mainstream media portrays, there’s a huge and growing percentage of people homeschooling for reasons other than religion or a conservative viewpoint.
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