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Cheers for Mrs. Mary Schoenheit and Mr. William Cheney for deciding to educate their daughters themselves [Oct. 29]. Too many parents refuse any responsibility whatsoever for the education of their children and then complain of school taxes and poor teachers. The law requiring attendance at school exists obviously to insure an education for all children. If, however, a child can get and is getting a good education at home, it is ridiculous to enforce...
...they been in another profession, the actions of Mary Schoenheit, 47, of Centertown, Mo. , and William Cheney, 35, of Eldon, Mo., might not have caused much stir. But Mrs. Schoenheit was formerly a public-school teacher in Illinois, and Cheney now teaches at the Eldon high school. This fall they independently decided to keep their seven-year-old daughters out of school and teach them at home. Reason: both felt that the local public schools are not doing a good enough...
According to Mary Schoenheit, "our public schools are antiquated institutions consuming our children's lives and our money and giving us in return trained seals who balance balls on their noses and bark at the right signal." Each pupil must progress at the same rate, and the result is that the school "molds little minds in the same groove, standardizes the children and stifles initiative." For the last month Mrs. Schoenheit has been giving her little Mary lessons in writing, reading, spelling, arithmetic, history and geography. She has also added Spanish and violin lessons. "Mary," she insists, "has done...
Last week Mrs. Schoenheit, who has no Missouri teaching certificate, was brought into court, sentenced to ten days in jail and fined $5 for willfully refusing to enter her daughter in the public school. After three hours she surrendered, but once released, decided to appeal her case and keep Mary out of school until the circuit court takes action. Meanwhile, Missouri's other rebel also still had his daughter at home. Unlike Mrs. Schoenheit, William Cheney has a Missouri certificate to teach, and Missouri law requires only that a child receive the equivalent of a public-school education. Unless...
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