For Home Students, Chance to Join the Club in Public School

July 5, 2007

Say you're a home-schooled student, but you want to learn about photography, and think the best way to learn, barring lessons on dad's bulky Polaroid, is working on the high school yearbook.

Impossible, right? Home-schoolers in high school clubs?

Beginning in the fall, the Prince William County school system will be the first among major school districts in Northern Virginia to allow students in private or home schools to enroll in extracurricular activities such as clubs, although not competitive sports teams.

By Ian Shapira Washington Post Staff Writer

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