Letter: Home schooling needs to stay legal

As the mom of a home-schooling family, I can vouch that home schoolers are a diverse group of people. Our reasons for home schooling are equally diverse. The one thing that we (all) have in common is a deep love for our children and an environment that allows our children to flourish into high-quality, literate, socially responsible and productive adults.

One of the key reasons that home schooling is so successful is that we are largely unregulated. Our children have the ability to learn at their own pace, in a very flexible environment. Each family's needs are different. Some home-schooling families have children with "special" needs. A one-size-fits-all approach to standardizing and "testing" home schooling will fail our home-schooling families.

Home schooling needs to remain a legal and unregulated option.

-Karri A. Lewis

Lakewood