With the 2007 legislative sessions already starting in many states, this is a good time to begin thinking about how you might want to get involved, and HEM General Manager Mary Nix provides a terrific guide to the process in a post to the HEM Support Groups News.
Mary writes, “I found out that just as [...]
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For the past couple of days there’s been an interesting discussion about the history of homeschooling laws and regulations taking place on the HEM-Networking list.
The discussion started with this post on Monday, in which the writer asked, in part: “…in the history of homeschooling, before we had laws (home education, homeschooling, home instruction, etc/) what [...]
The HEM Networking discussion list has always been known for a no-nonsense approach to the most timely and important homeschooling issues. Founded in 1999 and currently listing almost 1,000 members, the list includes many veteran and pioneer homeschoolers who enjoy sharing their intimate knowledge of the history, the people, and the significant events which shaped [...]
Our friend Susan Ryan also comments on an Ohio curfew situation: Corn and Oil » Legal Group may no longer have a problem¦
She writes, “if a daytime curfew is approved, homeschoolers will have to prove that they’re homeschoolers when they’re out and about. And that just seems wrong to me.”
Seems wrong to us too.
Trying to catch up with some of my favorite blogs and came across this from Spunky, which I thought deserved excerpting here (I strongly advise clicking over and reading her entire post):
SpunkyHomeSchool: The Online Charter Homeschool Myth
“For the record, I don’t care what curriculum Dan or anyone else chooses to homeschool their children. It’s your [...]
