In the never-ending quest to improve our education system, a public school in Tennessee has devised a groundbreaking new model: Students only come to campus once a week. They spend the rest of their time studying at home under the tutelage of their parents. They call it a revolutionary new idea. But for those who homeschool, it looks awfully familiar.
It seems the public school system has suddenly decided to copy our homework. The important question remains: Will it work?
When the modern homeschooling movement started over four decades ago, it made waves. Parents withdrawing their children from school? Nonsense. Parents as the primary educators? Preposterous. School officials, judges, and elected officials scrambled to dig through dusty, seldom-used portions of their state code to determine whether or not homeschooling was even legal. As a homeschool student in the ‘80s, I saw this firsthand.