Homeschooling News 1999 & before

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CALABRETTA v FLOYD U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals #9715385 While not exactly a homeschool issue, the entry into a homeschool home and search of these children were of concern to lots of us. The Calabretta's eventually prevailed.

August 1999: Homeschoolers Adapt Well to College:

From The Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro,
http://dnj.edge.net/index.ez?viewStory=5818
NASHVILLE (AP) -- Their high school experience might seem sheltered, but home-school graduates generally don't have any more trouble adjusting to college life than those from public schools.

Susan McDowell, managing editor of the Peabody Journal of Education at Vanderbilt University, acknowledged little research has been done on the estimated 1.5 million to 1.7 million home-school students nationwide.

"But what there has been has been positive, or at least neutral," said McDowell, who
researched the relationships between home-schooling mothers and children for her
doctorate. "They seem as a group to be very adaptive.

June 22, 1999: TnHomeEd is born and begins meeting the needs of homeschoolers of all types across the state.

Spring 1999: Arkebauer:

Shelly Arkebauer , a homeschooling mother for 9 years finds herself fighting her ex-husband, a Colorado judge and HSLDA in her efforts to continue homeschooling her daughter. Mrs. Arkebauer eventually prevailed.

1/29/99 Efforts to Quash Homeschooling Fail

This WorldNetDaily article details the dustup in Lauderdale County in the fall of 1998. A new Federal program to combat truancy, school officials and a local judge were all a part of this incident where two homeschooling parents were arrested. One of the results of this whole incident was the Jeter Memorandum .

12/16/99 Sonlight's John Holzmann asks Mike Farris (HSLDA) about criticisms raised at Home Education Magazine .

More particularly about his conduct regarding Wisconsin's homeschool laws and allegations Dr. Raymond Moore . Unfortunately for posterity, Sonlight discussion boards where this exchange took place have been wiped clean of this exchange between Farris and Holzmann.  Mike was essentially non-responsive. John said he'll ask more specific questions for Mike to respond to but such wasn't to be the case. In January of 2000 Sonlight "disassociated" itself from HSLDA. While Sonlight customers can utilize an HSLDA discount number via Sonlight, Sonlight has decided to stop promoting HSLDA. You can read a bit more about this on the 2000 News page.

Fall 1997: Seelhoff:

Carol Lindsey Seelhoff (Gentle Spirit Magazine) sued and won a lawsuit charging conspiracy under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. This is homeschool news because the defendants were well known figures in homeschool circles.

Briefly, the defendants took it upon themselves to exercise "church discipline" over Ms. Seelhoff, who was not under their authority. This discipline included, seemingly, the attempt to take over her very successful magazine for the benefit of the two magazine publishers who were defendants.

Selected trial transcripts can be found here : Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff v. Sue Welch (The Teaching Home Magazine), Mary Pride (Practical Homeschooling Magazine), Gregg Harris (Christian Life Workshops & Noble Publishing), Christian Home Educators of Ohio, et. al. in the Western District of Washington (State). Case #C97-5383.

Cheryl's side of the story.

Home-Ed-Magazine has been tracking this case and they have several articles about it.