On 9/25/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sep 25, 2006, at 4:23 PM, David Russell wrote:
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Mark Wagner wrote:
Define "school". Under Michigan law, I
was educated in a private
school: the Vernon-Dunlap School. I can even cite sources that prove
the existence of this school and that I went there; however, this
particular "school" existed only because that's how the state of
Michigan defined homeschooling: as a private school with a religious
or philosophical objection to teacher certification. Should we have
an article on it?
Yes. The unusualness (is that a word?) of this arrangement means
that it
would be inherently notable.
Home-schooling in Michigan is not unusual. That they put a "school
name" on the books does not make a given home-school notable.
-Phil
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This does bring up the perfectly good point that even if we made a
completely inclusionary policy, we'd still have "school like things"
(Michigan home school pseudo-schools) which aren't really notable or
"schools" by normal standards.
There will have to be a line short of "all things that have any record
claiming they may be a school of some sort".
The first place that line seems logically to go, on first inspection, is
"Paid teachers".
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