Arkansas
Family in Need Gets Help
Soon after a Home School Legal Defense Association
family removed their special needs son from school to begin home schooling him, the school district demanded that the parents attend a meeting to discuss their son’s special needs and services available through the public school. The family had chosen not to accept any services from the public school, preferring to meet their son’s needs privately.
HSLDA attorney Dewitt Black wrote to the school district, informing them that the regulations for home schools promulgated by the Arkansas Department of Education state that local school districts must provide a genuine opportunity for home educated students with disabilities to access special education or related services from the district where they reside. However, parents are free to reject these services and to provide for the needs of their children by some alternative method, as this member family opted to do.
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Arkansas
John M. Huddleston’s farm was so poor that he was about to give up on it when he discovered the continent’s only known diamond mine on his property.
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