West Virginia
Mountaineers Maintain Freedom
Each fall, overzealous local school officials try to exert more control over home school families than West Virginia law allows. Greenbrier County has tried to make home schoolers score above the 40th percentile in every subtest area rather than simply as an average of the whole test. Hardy County has tried to make home schoolers keep the same hours of instruction and school calendar as the public schools. Nicholas County has adopted a long and complicated policy which seems to have little purpose except to confuse home schoolers. Preston County insists that home schoolers may not operate a “co-op school” under the Exemption K laws. Calhoun County is threatening to prosecute one family who insists upon their right to use an evaluator of their choice, rather than the school’s.
However, home schoolers represent the best of freedom-loving West Virginia mountaineers, and they continue to successfully defend their freedom to raise their children according to conscience in the face of conflict and opposition.
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West Virginia
Admitted to statehood:
June 20, 1863
Origin of name:
West Virginia was formed when western counties of Virginia refused to secede from the United States in 1863.
Motto:
Montani Semper Liberti—Mountaineers are always free.
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