Home-schooling, the quiet revolution...

Friends at college don’t always know what to think when they ask Chris Byrd where he went to high school.

“Really? You were home-schooled? Why aren’t you a freak?”

In Oklahoma, by some estimates, 33,000 children are facing that kind of question. If home schools were a district of their own, it would be twice the size of Broken Arrow Public Schools, and three times the size of Jenks.

“They expect you to be so socially awkward that you can’t function away from home,” 

Byrd says. “And some home-school kids are like that.” More...

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3. Brazil: couple condemned for homeschooling their kids!!!
4. Pink Floyd: Another brick in the wall...