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

DATE: SUNDAY, March 4, 1990                   TAG: 9003014377
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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ONE SCHOOL ACHIEVES MANY IMPORTANT GOALS

Baffling, perplexing, almost unsolvable problems have gripped the public education system. The pouring out of mega tax dollars into this system has produced no appreciable increase in student test scores in the past 10 years and yet the clamor is for still more money.

However, there are schools accomplishing the following goals:

\ 1. High academic accomplishment with most students scoring well above the average school.

\ 2. Drug-free schools, students and faculty.

\ 3. A zero dropout rate.

\ 4. A 100 percent graduation rate.

\ 5. Minimized peer pressure and high moral standards.

\ 6. Highly motivated students with a sense of confident self-esteem.

\ 7. 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 schools only dream about. Public educators can learn valuable, practical, productive lessons from the proliferation of this burgeoning schooling movement.\ Larry Fenzel\ Roanoke

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