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Arons, Stephen – Saturday Review (New York 1975), 1978
In 1978, the Amherst School Department rejected Peter and Susan Perchemlides' proposal for educating their eight-year-old son at home and cited them in court for failing to send the child to school. The author describes this controversy and reviews previous court cases on compulsory schooling. (SJL)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Compulsory Education, Court Litigation, Educational Responsibility
McAvoy, Rogers – 1986
While the legal question of what constitutes a private school--and whether home schools can continue to operate as such--remains a matter to be resolved by the courts or further legislation, a separate question remains: What should be the role and relationship of home schools to the educational network of the future? Economically and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Compulsory Education, Computer Uses in Education
