From the Tulsa World...

As Oklahoma turns 100, so does home-schooling in the state, and many people believe it is one of the friendliest -- if not the friendliest -- state in the nation toward home-schoolers.

"Oklahoma is unique in America in that home-schooling is established as a right in the state constitution," said Scott Woodruff, an attorney with the Home School Legal Defense Association, based in Virginia. The organization comes to the legal defense of people who are home-schooling nationwide.

Many states have the same kind of provisions in statutory laws, but not in their constitutions, according to Martin H. Belsky, professor of law at the University of Tulsa.

Section 4, Article 13 of the Oklahoma Constitution states that, "The Legislature shall provide for the compulsory attendance at some public or other school, unless other means of education are provided, of all the children in the State who are sound in mind and body, between the ages of eight and sixteen years, for at least three months in each year."

It is the clause "unless other means of education are provided" that means so much to home-schoolers in the state.

What's also exciting is that a fellow Tulsa Bible Church member was mentioned...

Precious Adams, who home-schooled three of her children who are now grown and one who is 14, said she and her husband choose to home-school because of religious conviction, but their Bible-based curriculum didn't leave out basic subjects.

"We looked at the state of Oklahoma requirements for graduation," Adams said. "I don't think that you could, in good conscience, graduate students if they hadn't met the basic requirements for public school."

Adams said the public's perception of home-schooling has changed in 20 years.

"When we started, no one had heard of it," she said. Now when she tells people that she home-schools her son, they often say, "Oh yeah, my neighbor home-schools, or my cousin home-schools," she said.

Love that name, but she doesn't sound at all like what you'd expect someone named Precious to sound like. She does look the part, a little bit.