The Detroit News.
Parents say the whole point of home-schooling is customizing the lessons to fit individual needs.
About 5,700 of 1.2 million high school graduates in 2000 were home-schooled. The Michigan Home Education convention takes place Friday and Saturday at the Lansing Center in Lansing, with speakers and workshops. They say it's unfair because they don't prepare children specifically for MEAP tests. A bill in the state Legislature would require home-schooled children to take the state MEAP tests, just as public school students do. Opponents of the MEAP proposal say it is a state intrusion into the lives of people who fiercely oppose public schools because of religious reasons or because they wish to educate their children the way they see fit.