Why not just develop a recognition and scholarship program that operates through an existing home-education organization?
A. Dan Witte did raise the idea with a number of organizations over a number of years. Nothing ultimately developed from the discussions. Dan ultimately came to recognize the crux of the conundrum: an inherent conflict-of-interest would hamper any existing organization that catered to a specific demographic segment of the home-education community, defined its own identity in a geocentric way, promoted a particular ideology or pedagogy, serviced private or public schools, marketed a curriculum, sold information or commercial supplies, had close ties to one or more existing institutions of higher learning, worked within a system of formal organizational alliances, had an entrenched political or legal reputation, or had a material or controlling tie to some organization or person with an entrenched reputation. Even if one or more of the existing organizations had been genuinely interested in offering a fair awards program for all home educators, one or more of the above characteristics wo
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