About Independent Homeschooling

Hi! I’m Linda Martin, the mother of five, ages 37 to 20. I homeschooled my two youngest children for nine years. I’m done homeschooling now but I’m not done being an advocate for homeschool.

My focus in this website is to be an advocate for independent homeschooling – the kind of homeschooling done without enrollment in any government school, charter school, or independent study program. I’m doing this because I believe homeschooling parents have enough to think about without having to constantly fill out forms to comply with government programs. I can see doing one or two forms per year if needed to comply with law, but not daily or even weekly.

With that in mind I will be writing about many aspects of homeschooling, but will especially be looking at state homeschool laws to determine which states are most homeschool friendly, and which ones need modifications to their homeschool laws to permit independent homeschooling.

I support the separation of school and state.

Long ago I trained to be a paralegal and earned an Associate of Science degree in legal assisting. I never went to work to use it because I was too busy being a stay-at-home mom and homeschooling my kids. So if I can put this skill to work now by helping homeschoolers achieve the freedom they deserve, I will it to be so.

I’m also the owner of a large family rights website: Fight CPS – for fighting Child Protective Services false accusations. That site has been online more than ten years and has helped many good parents regain custody of their children.

As a footnote I’ll mention that I believe I owned the first homeschooling blog on the Internet. When I started Linda’s Homeschool Weblog in 2001 I couldn’t find any other blogs about homeschooling. If you know of any blogs that started before mine, let me know so I can stop making this claim!