Education WV public schools bullying homeschoolers to come back
As the homeschooling community continues to rapidly grow in West Virginia’s Ritchie County, school officials are swiftly scrambling to find and employ new ways to get home-educated students back into the public classroom. Losing nearly $12,000 of funding per student, the county’s superintendent ordered a campaign designed to convince homeschooling parents to put their children back in the public schools.
According to the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, based in Purcellville, Virginia, Ritchie County Superintendent of Schools Ed Toman instructed his staff members to contact homeschool parents and persuade them to re-enroll their children in public school.
Corroborating the account, it has recently been reported that numerous homeschool families across the county have been receiving calls from school officials. They allegedly not only interrogated parents on their competency to teach their...
