The Joys of Home Schooling
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Looks like a million Seeing is believing at Bubb School LOCAL NEWS | P.5 OCTOBER 5, 2007 VOLUME 15, NO. 39 INSIDE: INBUSINESS | PAGE 24 650.964.6300 MountainViewOnline.com Council slashes Rengstorff project MAJORITY SAYS HIGH-DENSITY HOMES DON’T FIT WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD By Daniel DeBolt favor of the densest form of R3 zoning, allowing up to 64 units. he City Council came close Whether the project will get to rejecting a proposal for final approval in the future Thigh-density affordable remains to be seen. Council condos at a study session Tues- member Tom Means wondered day night, but instead mustered support in a 4-3 straw vote to cut See COUNCIL, page 8 the project nearly in half. Last year, a more development- friendly council had approved a gatekeeper request for convert- Local vet ing 32 apartments at 333 N. Rengstorff Ave. into 102 small, affordable condos. The project on trial for MARJAN SADOUGHI is unique in that the developer is Jonathan Luxton practices typing on an old typewriter his family bought from a thrift store. hoping to sell the condos in the robbery $400,000 range, with some going as low as $320,000. FRIENDS, FAMILY “Think of it two decades LAUNCH EFFORT TO from now, when people cannot The joys of home schooling afford to live in single-family REDUCE SENTENCE homes,” said a representative for By Daniel DeBolt MORE FAMILIES SHUN TRADITIONAL CLASSES IN FAVOR the developer, San Mateo-based Nazareth Enterprises Inc., in hen Sargent Bin- OF PERSONALIZED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT what seemed like a make-or- kley went to Los break plea Tuesday night. “It’s WAltos High School, By Susan Hong er, Susan Luxton, who oversees her son’s education not a project that will turn the he was thought of as a mel- in their Mountain View home. Her husband is a area into a high-end, exclusive low, athletic honor student n a typical weekday, Jonathan Luxton, 11, professor at Stanford University. area.” who wanted to go to West sleeps in late, eats breakfast at 11:30, plays Jonathan is one of roughly 300,000 home- Before the meeting, several Point. No one ever dreamed Oon the computer at noon, writes legalese schooled children in California and one of about council members indicated that he would end up in jail for and enjoys reading about atomic physics. 2 million across the country, according to the the project could be rejected armed robbery. Jonathan does not attend school the way most Home School Legal Defense Association. And because the request for R4 zon- But after years of suffering children in America do; instead, he is home- those numbers are growing every year, according ing was too extreme. Several said from a painful hip injury schooled. to experts. the large, high-density building he received during his mili- He works on projects of his own conception The top two reasons why families choose to didn’t fit in the neighborhood tary service, Binkley became whenever he wants. Recently, home-school their children of town homes, single-family addicted to painkillers. In for instance, he recorded a are familiar: concern about the homes and low-density apart- January 2006 he held up the Hardy Boys book via his “play” negative peer environment in ments. Walgreens pharmacy on the company. In the liner notes some public schools, including The developer said that while corner of El Camino Real he wrote, “Produced in accor- exposure to dangerous drugs, he was willing to make compro- and Grant Road with an dance with FCC regulations.” crime and gangs, and the fact mises, no redevelopment project unloaded gun. In March he Then he added: “Ha! Ha! that some families want to was viable without a zoning did the same at a Walgreens Just kidding! Produced by the teach from a religious perspec- change to allow a new, bigger in San Carlos. Jonathan Luxton Syndicate. tive, said Ian Slatter, spokesman building. Eventually he turned him- No rights reserved, preserved, for the home-school group. Last year’s council was gener- self in, and now faces at least or deserved.” MARJAN SADOUGHI Also, some home- ally supportive of the project, 12 years in prison, the state’s “Every day is a little differ- Jonathan works from a vocabulary but Tuesday’s action seemed to ent,” said his teacher and moth- book with his mother Susan Luxton. 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