Teenage home-schooled students have the luxury to pursue more than academics, like managing a goat farm, training for a triathlon or volunteering to build a church in Mexico. Home-schooling parents don't take taxpayer money and don't impose their educational methods on others, and their children aren't shooting other students or teachers. If a Home Schoolers Hall of Fame existed, it would showcase a rainbow coalition of talent. Accomplished home schoolers include NFL player Jason Taylor, Grammy award winner Christina Aguilera and National Spelling Bee champion George Thampy. Given their small numbers, I think those acomplishments are quite impressive.
Class is dismissed.
When we meet again, please have your homework done. This column appeared in the Dallas Morning News on June 11, 2000. Isabel Lyman lives in Edmond, Oklahoma. A former editorial columnist for the Daily Hampshire Gazette of Northampton, Massachusetts, her views have appeared in various national publications, including the Wall Street Journal and Investors Business Daily . Ms. Lyman may be contacted via e-mail by clicking here .