School 'schooled' for calling home-schooler a dropout

A public school in southwest Missouri tried to get a homeschool teen to sign a form saying he was a dropout after he ended his part-time enrollment there. 

Scott Woodruff of the Home School Legal Defense Association says school officials sent a form asking the parents to sign it. It would then be submitted to the Missouri Literacy Council for distribution on a statewide network of business owners, military personnel and other institutions of learning.

"The parents, of course, had no desire to sign it,” he tells OneNewsNow. “The school then contacted them again to get them to sign it. The family asked for help and, of course, HSLDA looked at it and said this is ridiculous."

He says apparently the school decided homeschooling was the equivalent of dropping out.

"It's very strange - quite an aberration,” he says. “It shocked the family when they found out about it. It shocked me when I heard about it. And it shocked me even more to find out that this 'Missouri Literacy Council' the form referred to didn't actually exist."

Woodruff says when HSLDA contacted the school, it "promptly removed the unconscionable threat" from the form and removed any insinuation that homeschooling is equivalent to dropping out.