HSLDA Homeschool News
In a significant move to support the rights of home-schooling parents worldwide, the Vatican has issued a statement to the United Nations. The statement says governments “should respect the choices that parents make for their children and avoid attempts at ideological indoctrination.” Jeremiah Lorrig of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) says this is especially important in more restrictive countries. “In Sweden, for example, home-school parents have had their children taken away from them,” Lorrig notes. “In Germany, there was a story about a year ago where a family… had immigrated to Germany. They had to flee back to Iran...
HSLDA Chairman Mike Farris will be on Fox News Tuesday at 10:40 a.m. Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: HSLDA Chairman Michael Farris will be on national television tomorrow morning as he speaks in defense of parental rights regarding yet another controversial issue—child obesity. Fox News’ American Newsroom plans to interview Farris at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday. Journalists will seek his insight into recent government restrictions on what children can eat and drink while at school. Supporters familiar with Farris’s efforts to pass a parental rights amendment to the Constitution can be sure his response will focus on a solution that begins...
DALLAS — The day Michelle Zeledon’s parents informed her they would begin home schooling, she thought her life was over. “What about homecoming?” she asked. “And prom? What about everything that makes high school high school?” Zeledon, 17, of Arlington, Texas, certainly did not picture herself at a downtown Dallas hotel Saturday night, wearing a long, plum-colored dress, her hair swept up, ready to spend the night dancing at her prom. “I will admit I was not happy. I worried I would miss out and just sit at home all the time,” said Zeledon, who began home schooling more than...
The RTE Act, which came into effect on April 1, 2010, makes it mandatory for every child (from the six to 14 year age group) to be enrolled in a formal school. Petitioners have argued that individuals have the right to choose the mode of education for themselves, including home schooling. At a hearing on Wednesday, the court asked the respondents to reply to the petition within four weeks. Read full article (Thanks HSLDA for the heads up on this story)...
Removing the requirement that the local school administrators assess the home school programs would make the relationship between the two less adversarial, supporters say. A parent having difficulty teaching a particular subject might hesitate to reach for help, worried the superintendent would put the program on probation. The bill would also put home school programs on an equal ground with private schools… Read full article (Thanks HSLDA for the heads up on this story)...
Home schooling seemed like a natural thing to do for the Schilke family of rural Smiths Falls. Amy, and her husband Rev. Daniel Schilke, began home-schooling their first-born son a week after he first attended school in New Jersey. “His teacher asked me if I’d ever considered home schooling,” she said. “I’d prayed about it, and it seemed to fall into place.” Now that 15-year-old, Stefan, is in high school, he attends Perth and District Collegiate Institute where he holds down a 90 per cent average. Read full article (Thanks HSLDA for the heads up on this story)...
For 6,800 Nebraska students, the school day doesn’t start with the traditional bell. They are part of a small percentage of the state’s children who are home-schooled, a practice that is becoming more common each year. “Home School Nebraska” puts the practice of home schooling to the test–talking to supporters and critics–and examining the role of reading, rights and religion. “Home School Nebraska” premieres Friday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. CT on NET1/HD. The 30-minute NET News production “Home School Nebraska” studies what home-schooled children are learning, how they are being taught and the benefits and disadvantages of home schooling....
CARY — Going into the 2012 Bobby Murray High School Invitational Baseball Tournament, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, Wake County Home School Warriors coach Warren Harvey knew he had a good baseball team that belonged in the tournament against some of the top baseball programs from the area. By the end of the championship game Saturday night the Warriors proved their coach right with a 6-5 win over tradition-rich Fuquay-Varina in the final. Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/06/1988295/warriors-prove-they-belong.html#storylink=cpy Read full article (Thanks HSLDA for the heads up on this story)...
SC House approves private school choice bill … Rep. Eric Bedingfield, R-Mauldin, said it’s about providing parents choices. “I don’t believe education is a one-size-fits-all proposition,” he said. He noted students can get lottery-funded scholarships toward tuition at private colleges in the state: “Why shouldn’t we give the choices in K-12?” The bill would allow parents to take a $4,000 tax deduction per child for tuition paid, $2,000 for homeschool expenses and $1,000 per child who attends a public school outside the district where he or she lives. It would allow people to claim tax credits for donating to newly...
Since March 19, the 21st annual National Christian Homeschool Basketball Championships have taken over courts large and small throughout the area, as home school teams from across the country have come to compete. Tim Flatt, executive director for the organization that runs the tournament, said 352 teams played in 27 venues. It’s the fourth year for the tournament in Springfield, and Flatt said the city has been a good fit. Read full article National Christian Homeschool Basketball Championships info...
SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV – Now in its fourth year, the Eastern Panhandle Home School Conference attracted more than 130 attendees to Shepherdstown’s Covenant Baptist Church on Saturday. Donna Bent, a local mother who home-schooled her two children, first got the idea to organize the conference when she realized there is a sizable number of parents in Berkeley and Jefferson counties who home-school their children. However, before the EPHSC started, those parents had to go out of state to find such a conference, according to Bent. There are more than 800 home-schooled students in Berkeley and Jefferson counties. Before the EPHSC began,...
