Oprah vs. Home schoolers...

From Oprah's site:

On January 16, 2006, The Oprah Winfrey Show is doing something we've never done before. In addition to announcing my new book club selection—which I promise is mandatory reading for every human being on the planet—I will also announce Oprah's National High School Essay Contest to accompany it.

Contest open to all legal residents of the US, who are currently enrolled full-time (and in good standing) in a public or state-accredited private or parochial school, grades 9–12.

Home schoolers are not welcome? Is Oprah afraid that public schools might be shown for the failures they are, similar to the spelling and geography bees at which public school students routinely perform much worse than their counterparts who are home-schooled or attend private religous schools?

And I thought the left was about tolerance and including everyone...