David Albert

"Vicki A. Dennis" wrote:

> ... thanks for sharing, David ...
> >
> >> books (Holt, by the way, used the terms "homeschooling" and "unschooling"
> >> interchangeably --
>
> He also used deschooling in late 70's early 80's.
>
> it was only later, in the 1980s when large numbers of
> >> fundamentalists found their small church schools closed because of tax
> >laws, that
>
> can you explain more about how tax laws closed small church schools? Was
> this a problem only in certain areas or states?
>
> Are you referring to "tax laws" denying exemptions if property was used for
> a commercial business?

This one, as I understand it (Linda Dobson is the expert in this area.) But in
the early '70s, other than kids in communes, and some children of political
radicals and Black Panthers, the only examples of homeschooling I knew of, read
about, or met were Amish/Mennonities and Mormons.

David
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