
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 11, 1990                   TAG: 9003122962
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: F-2   EDITION: METRO 
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PUBLIC EDUCATORS CAN LEARN FROM HOME SCHOOLS

BAFFLING, perplexing, almost unsolvable problems have griped the public educational system. The pouring of mega-tax dollars into this system has produced no appreciable increase in student test scores in the last 10 years, yet the clamor is for still more money. However, there are schools accomplishing the following goals:

High academic accomplishment with most students scoring well above the average school student.

Drug-free schools, students and faculty.

A zero dropout rate.

100 percent graduation rate.

Minimized peer pressure and high moral standards.

Highly motivated students with a sense of confident self-esteem.

Thinking students who integrate well into the societal structure.

The home school. As old as America herself, with such notable alumni as Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, Martha Washington and Abigail Adams. The home school is accomplishing what the public school only dreams about. Public educators can learn valuable, practical, productive lessons from the proliferation of this burgeoning schooling movement. LARRY FENZEL ROANOKE

by CNB