The principal is responsible for establishing a positive image for the school and communicating effectively with all constituents, including home schooling parents. Besides becoming familiar with laws, policies, and guidelines, principals should involve teachers in cooperative efforts, view parents as educators, initiate meetings to discuss how…

The principal is crucial to helping previously home-schooled children make a successful transition to public school. Principals should make parents feel welcome; have teachers stress openness, warmth, and caring; give parents and students clear expectations; create a public-relations brochure; describe discipline procedures; discuss the school's…

Public school educators often fail to appreciate the various reasons home schooling is an increasingly attractive option for families of nearly every class, race, religion, and political perspective. Parents preferring to home school their children generally reveal one of two motivations for their decision. 'Idealogues' aim to promote specific…