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Home-Schooled Students Rise in Supply and Demand

Do students need textbooks?
The ever-growing number of tools and the increasing cost of textbooks are the reasons some high schools in South Mississippi have only one set of books in the classroom, and students must check one out if they need to take it home.

Are Jackson County students in danger of contacting a staph infection?
Jackson County School District officials say parents should not worry about their children's health, despite rumors that a Vancleave Middle School student may have died of a staph infection.

Margaret Bush, interim superintendent for the school district, said Vancleave Middle School was mourning the death of Shae Kierman, 11, an eighth-grade student who died Friday.




- Why Homeschooling Works ~ No Or Little Bureaucracy
Homeschool Parents/Teachers are able to pick out the curriculum and textbooks that best suits their children/students. Unlike the public school system where the teacher may have very little input into what textbooks will be used in their classroom. This...

- Wake Up Jackson County Parents
Update: Board rescinds uniform decision By Jonnelle Davis Rockingham County Board of Education took a late-night vote Monday to rescind an April decision that would have required Reidsville middle and high school students to wear uniforms this fall....

- South Hall Middle School No Longer Requires Its 950 Students To Wear Uniforms
South Hall Middle School no longer requires its 950 students to wear uniforms. The school began last Thursday allowing students to either wear uniforms, a mixture of royal and baby blues, or abide by the district's regular dress code. Principal...

- Mississippi School Creates Political Activist
Twelve-year-old Trey Perkins may be one of George County's newest political activists. Since February, the sixth-grader at George County Middle School has been on a mission to show school district officials that many students and taxpayers are against...

- Bounds Bad News For Mississippi
I have always been thankful it is so easy to homeschool in Mississippi. You just register your child as homeschooled with the school attendance officer for your school district. So Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds' threats to scrutinize homeschooling...



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