Woman In Iron Lung Was Homeschooled

The obituary of 71-year-old Martha Mason of Lattimore, N.C. notes that she was homeschooled. There was good reason she was allowed to do so 37 years before it was recognized in the N.C. Supreme Court decision in Delconte v. N.C. -- a bout with polio forced her to depend on an iron lung from the age of ten. The Associated Press story says she graduated from Wake Forest University at the top of her class.