The Denver media seems obsessed with the Henderson family in Aurora.  Works for me.  It is a great story.

Keeping the children living and learning at home started some 20 years ago. (more…)

The Bismarck Tribune posted an article describing homeschoolers’ participation in the Bismarck area’s public and private schools.  They need to follow the North Dakota Activities Association rules to join in.  A public school principal says this:

Home-school students are splitting time between home-school and public school

Madler said the approach is similar to the policy that if a private school doesn’t offer a particular activity, students who attend the private school are allowed to participate at a public school.

Another school administrator reshuffled policy when he came on-board.  That open door policy based on open participation administrative attitudes seems to be the case in some individual school districts.

“(Home school students) have a right to participate, whether public or private,” he said. “If they choose Shiloh as a place they would like to participate, we would allow that.”

Only a handful of home-school students have participated in sports at Shiloh, he said. In the past, home school-students were only allowed to participate in specific sports or activities. That hasn’t been the case since Forness has been principal.