The Right to Home School

This popular book is now revised, updated, and in its third edition.

Home schooling is exactly what the name implies: a school in the home where the teachers are the parents. Historically, home schooling was one of the major forms of education until the early 1900s. Today, the number of home-schooled children is estimated to be as high as one million, and since 1982, thirty-four states have enacted laws specifically to protect the constitutional rights of parents to teach their own children. Written by the Senior Counsel of the Home School Legal Defense Association, this book is useful both to interested parents, who are often unaware of the extent of their rights and unsure where to turn for help, and to attorneys who represent them. Klicka discusses the legislative and judicial histories of home schooling and provides a clear picture of the impediments often placed in the way of those who wish to home school by local officials.

In addition to discussing the rights and legal recourses available to those parents, The Right to Home School, Third Edition also summarizes the statutory trend to deregulate home schooling, thereby encouraging families to continue this highly successful form of education.