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Rapid City to protect privacy
Last fall, several Rapid City public schools sent letters to some homeschool parents inviting them to enroll their children in the public school system. Not only was the invitation itself unwelcome, but it showed that the Rapid City School Board was not protecting homeschoolers' privacy. The school board should not have allowed information about homeschool families to be released to individual public schools.
Homeschool Legal Defense Association, working closely with local homeschool leaders, addressed the issue with school system officials and drafted a policy to solve the problem.
Margie Rosario, president of the school board, was very receptive to the draft policy. After making a few minor changes, she met with local homeschool leaders to discuss it. All agreed that some additional refinement was necessary, but that the policy was workable and would protect homeschool families' privacy.
Ms. Rosario will be asking the full school board to adopt the policy very soon. Invitations for homeschoolers to enroll in the public school system should become a thing of the past.
— by Scott A. Woodruff
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