See: http://scottsmb.com/2008/07/21/the-new-media-apparently-isnt-in-suffolk-and-portsmouth-virginia/

As for the press releases being on a website, okay, but is it so hard to just add someone to an e-mail list?

There was a family that was using a technique known as unschooling, and using the public library on a regular basis for its resources. A busybody librarian thought she knew how those kids should be taught better than the family did, so she tried to exercise the authority she thought she had, by prohibiting minors from being in the library during school hours, even with a parent. When this family informed her that what they were doing there was in fact school, she invoked the “home” portion of “homeschooling” as a literal definition that it is supposed to be done in the home, and not in the library.

The ruling in the lawsuit that resulted determined that the parent is the sovereign over the child, and just devastated the various regulations that different localities around the state arbitrarily imposed on home education. As a result, local school districts retain only the power to demand that parents notify them of their intent, and report annul test results to prove academic progress. And even though they retain the power to make these demands, they have had a really rough time enforcing these demands in court, when parents decide not to comply.

The government lost all of this power because of a snooty librarian.

The Chesapeake courts have been denying me access to public records recently. I’ve enlisted help getting the info I need through a surrogate, but if she can get these records using the same processes as I am, while I’m being denied, it’s an issue I’m going to have to push.

Hey, Debbie, here’s a free lesson in media and community relations: don’t be an ignorant twit when it gains you nothing, and costs you the scorn of people with a voice.