Education: Schooling Kids at Home

A controversial movement grows bigger as parents revolt

Public school makes no sense to Bo Yoder, a strapping young native of Portland, Me. "You get interested in something, and then the bell rings, and you have to go somewhere else," he says. "It sounds horrible."

But then he wouldn't know. Aside from a brief stint in preschool, Bo, 15, ) has never been in a classroom. While his peers puzzle through the mysteries of a new high school year, he sits at home, quietly exploring the arcana of radio waves. He is a ham-radio fanatic, can take down Morse code at 13 words per minute and is aiming to...

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