Metts, Wallis C. Jr. “Home sweet hassle.” Educational Leadership 54, (October 1996): 72-73.
Abstract: Part of a special section on school choice and charter schools. The writer discusses his own and his partner’s experiences as home schoolers. They have no delusions that home schooling was easy. It became a political decision, as they had to lobby for the right to do it. They have also had to defend their decision to school officials, in-laws, close friends, and even total strangers, all of whom believed that their children would become social misfits. However, their children are socialized, civilized, and sensitive. The writer states that home schooling is a labor of love and contends that no child will be the worse for having experienced the focused attention of a caring adult, particularly the child’s own parent.
