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June 16, 2010 - Homeschooling Pioneer takes on Harry Reid

National Review Online has a piece about Sharron Angle – a homeschooling pioneer from Nevada that’s the GOP candidate for senate. There’s a lot about her homeschooling roots and struggle for parental rights that first thrust her into politics. She started homeschooling after her son “failed Kindergarten”:

“After he failed kindergarten, I put him back in for that second year and he was completely demoralized,” Angle explains. “What I had was a six-year-old dropout. I knew that I needed to do something different for this kid, to kind of put him back on his wheels and get him started again. I decided to homeschool him.”

As other parents joined her in homeschooling, they finally ran up against a flexible interpretation of Nevada homeschool law.

“A judge said, ‘I know it’s the law that you can homeschool in Nevada, but the law should be that you can’t, unless you live more than 50 miles away from the nearest school,’” Angle says, shaking her head at the memory. “At that point, I realized that the government had interfered with my family. It was kind of like a mother bear and her cubs: Don’t get between me and my cubs, or you’ve got trouble.”

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