When Home-Schooling Became Legal
Fast-forward to the 1980s, when left met right. Farris found himself defending a hodgepodge of home-schoolers slash unschoolers throughout the decade, mostly Christians like him and his family, but also “black Jews, Muslims … even one woman who told me her religious practices were a cross between Zen Buddhism and the philosophy of Winnie-the-Pooh.”
States got creative defending compulsory school attendance laws by leveraging truancy and even child abuse charges against home-schooling parents, and lawyers like Farris rose to the top of a booming individual rights movement.
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