When Joan Bridges started home schooling her children 25 years ago, first in Texas and then in Colorado, she just wanted to give her children a well-rounded education informed by the Catholic faith — ...
Like almost every other child in the Catholic parish where I grew up in Portland, Ore., my siblings and I were home-schooled. Our parish had a robust home-schooling community that organized group ...
As more and more parents are choosing to homeschool, it is perhaps not surprising that long-simmering tensions between parish religious education and homeschooling parents are coming to a head.