Happy As Kings
This comment appears in response to an opinion piece about the Washington Times at the above-named weblog:
HSLDA has been using the Washington Times to promote itself for years now. And the Washington Times uses HSLDA to promote its acceptance as a legitimate news source with a conservative viewpoint. Unfortunately, it also [...]
Homeschooling Is Legal
From this informative site:
Some materials published by the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) include frightening scenarios that depict homeschoolers being threatened by agents of Social Services. But what are the chances that a homeschooling family would ever have contact with Social Services? Does HSLDA truly offer any real protection? And what [...]
Homeschooling Illinois – Legislation and Learning (HILL): State Control Over Private Home-school
Dutch to Create Cradle-To-Grave Database sounds so oppressive, doesn’t it? That’s just Europe, one might say? So what’s the diff between Netherlands and Illinois and other states and let’s not forget the feds. Not much in this case, except the Dutch are [...]
Happy As Kings: Membership drive?
In an interesting analysis of a mundane PR piece, blogger Valerie Moon makes a good point about the important differences between home and school:
People may choose to run their families in a bureaucratic style, but — in the grand majority of cases — homeschooling boils down to a family living together [...]
HEM’s Support Group News, October
Interesting commentary in this month’s Support Group Newsletter, edited by Mary Nix, in an interview with two homeschool leaders in Virginia, Shay Seaborne and Amy Wilson:
Although two HSLDA attorneys agreed that the illegal regulation had a “‘chilling’ effect†on those who †aren’t represented by counsel,†HSLDA was content to leave [...]
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