North Dakota
Interfering School District Backs Down
With assistance from Home School Legal Defense Association, a family who just began home schooling this year was able to resolve a difficulty with their school district. In compliance with state law, the public school had provided a certified teacher to monitor the family’s home school program. The family had made arrangements to meet the monitor at the local public library once a week to go over their program. However, the public school superintendent insisted that the monitor physically enter the family’s home once a week.
Attorney Dewitt Black, who assists HSLDA members in North Dakota, rapidly fired off a letter to the school district, reminding the superintendent that the home school law of North Dakota does not authorize the monitor to enter a family’s house at any time. Attorney Black pointed out that the certified teacher had no objection to meeting at the library, as it was more convenient for both the monitor and the family. In response, not only did the district drop its objections to the monitor and family meeting at the library, but the superintendent also encouraged HSLDA to lobby the state legislature to repeal the monitor provision as unnecessarily intrusive.
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North Dakota
When he signed the statehood bills for the two Dakotas on the same day, President Benjamin Harrison would not reveal which one he signed first. Consequently, no one knows whether North Dakota is technically the 39th or the 40th state.
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