NC: Congressman goes to school
BevK August 14th, 2006
http://www.hickoryrecord….d=1149189958011
U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry visited with home-school families Saturday at a town hall meeting at Henry River Fork Park.
McHenry said it was important to have options for education, and that competition in the marketplace - in the form of private, charter and home-school programs - would lead to better education across the board.
“Home schooling is not for everyone,” McHenry said. “But I think that parents should have the choice about how to educate their children.”
McHenry is a co-sponsor of several pieces of pro-homeschool legislation, including the Family Education Freedom Act, the Hope Plus Scholarship Act of 2005 and the Homeschool Non-Discrimination Act of 2005.
