Jone Rose, a homeschooling mother from Lillington, has filed as a candidate for the Harnett County School Board:
Mrs. Rose said she is aware that people will wonder why a home schooling parent would want to serve on the board for public schools. She said she is running because she knows other families may not be able to escape a public school system that isn’t meeting all their needs.
“There are families out there who can’t home school or afford to send their children to private school,” she said. “They have no options. They are stuck. I want to bring my knowledge and understanding of the educational system to the table so we can improve the standards in Harnett County to benefit everyone.”
Rose pointed out that her children had once been in the public schools, which is why she is now homeschooling. She also said that as a homeschooler, she is accustomed to providing a well-rounded education to her children with very little money or building resources, so she doesn’t accept that more money is the automatic solution to problems in Harnett’s schools.
(Dunn Daily Record, 3/3/08)
