WEST VIRGINIA
Family Able To Continue Home Schooling
The West Virginia statutes require parents to have at least four years more formal education than their most academically advanced child. When the Sisler family's oldest child reached high school age, the parents moved him from home school to a private Christian school, because they do not have any post-secondary education. After a full year of driving seventy miles a day, they decided they had to go back to home schooling him. They selected the A Beka Video Program, meeting the requirements of § 18-8-1(B)(b) of West Virginia law. Not too surprisingly, the school rejected their request.
HSLDA Attorney Scott Somerville asked to meet with the school board on November 14th to make a new request. Instead of asking the school to find that the videotape is the "instructor," under Exemption B(b), HSLDA asked the board to approve the total program, under Exemption B(a). After explaining the situation in detail, the Preston County superintendent decided to accept this request. The Sislers are now conducting an approved program under Exemption B(a).
