
Passing Parade: Parental Rights Champion found
Nelson A. Pryor: Guest Columnist
“First comes the jolt,” says Michael Farris, of his 1980 experience as his oldest daughter began attending kindergarten at an elementary school in eastern Washington State. Farris and his wife, Christy, experiencing about two months of a government school, decided that the secularization going on was not for them.
Home-schooling at the time was rare, it’s legality uncertain. The Farris family, like others, confronted suspicion: Farris said a neighbo