This child who became such a point of pride to home-schooling parents couldn't stop shouting and jumping around and crowing about her moment of onstage accomplishment.

- Windowsintowonderland.org - Windows into Wonderland is the name of the web section intended for use by teachers in their classrooms and for home-schooling parents.

To imply that schools are safer than home for children is an affront to the large community of caring home-schooling parents.

What she has learned about acting has been taught by her mother, Janet, a home-schooling parent who with her husband, Joel, takes full charge of her children, intellectually and spiritually.

The Routine They teach basic subjects like history, math and reading, but home-schooling parents say it is wrong to assume their children sit at desks all day and study textbooks.

Home-schooling sites on the Web include academies and support groups for home-schooling parents.

Pledges to grant home-schooling parents access to tax-payer funded extracurricular activities; website vows to "protect the frail, infirm and the elderly from the state's arbitrary decision to terminate life"

Montana asks home-schooling parents to register but regulates no further.

"In some cases, the school districts will work with home-schooling parents to help them with their curricula," Mr. Murphy said.

Like many home-schooling parents, the Wendts are teaching their son the basics of reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling, history and geography.