Back to Work at Advocating Independence for Homeschoolers
I tried to sell this site so I could move on… do something else with my life. I run a large family rights website that keeps me pretty busy in my available online moments. However the site didn’t sell, and I’m glad because after taking a few months off, I’m motivated to do something with this site again. Why not? I still care about homeschooling independently.
I’m like many independent homeschoolers – I get frustrated by the lack of understanding many homeschoolers show. Partly they’re just frightened by the oppressive laws we deal with here in the USA these days, in many states. Some parents are victims of misinformation. They think they have to do what the public school establishment demands.
But no, we are the parents and we have the God-given right and responsibility to make decisions for the benefit of our children.
Our government has become a behemoth of red tape and statutory requirements. There are very few states where true independent homeschooling can be done. This is what I’d love to see changed in the future, but it is very, very hard. Once a law has been established limiting the rights of a parent to homeschool independently, it is very difficult to go backwards and delete the law from the books. You can count on more than half the legislators in any state being old stuck in the mud stogies who aren’t going to budge on a law overseeing the activities of homeschoolers. Any move toward independence, now that it has been sucked away, will be met with resistance.
So why do I bother? Well, there are a very few states where parents can homeschool relatively independently. I want people to know this freedom does exist in various places, and that in a natural common law society we’d have the rights to educate as we feel is best.
Meanwhile, even in states where there are a lot of restrictive requirements regarding homeschool activities, there’s still room for creativity in curriculum planning. There’s nothing more loving a parent can do than to take into consideration the needs and desires of their offspring and give them an education designed just for them.
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