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Home schoolers, accustomed to going their own way, have established their own scholastic honor society.

Students who are taught at home aren't eligible for the National Honor Society, which is operated by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, based in Reston, Va.

So Joanne E. Juren, a home schooling parent in Texas, started a parallel organization in 1999 for children taught at home. Ms. Juren opened the option of forming chapters of the society, called the Eta Sigma Alpha Honor Society, to home schoolers nationwide last year. To date, home schoolers have established 12 local chapters of Eta Sigma Alpha, with an estimated...