School Survival

It is hard to believe that within the civilized world in the 21st century we would still need to talk about actions used by the Nazi party in Germany to enforce civic conformity to the Nazi ideal. Unfortunately, this is exactly what is taking place in Germany today, and homeschoolers are the targets.On Feb. 1 […]

This month we explained to you what happened to the 15 year old German girl, Melissa, who was being homeschooled, how she was removed from her parent's home by 15 police officers and social workers, and placed into a psychiatric unit at the Nuremburg clinic for school-phobia (the account can be read at http://www.hslda.org/elert/arc... ).We […]

The situation for homeschoolers in Germany is getting worse each week. Just last Thursday, a 17-year-old homeschooled girl was forcibly removed from her parent's custody by over 15 police officers. The homeschooled girl has been placed in the child psychiatry unit of the Nuremberg clinic.Homeschooling is not legal in Germany. There are over 40 cases […]

From the HSDLA Mailing List: French homeschoolers are faced with a draconian bill which will be voted on by parliament within the next few days. We just received word about this bill today.Homeschooling is currently allowed in France. However, this bill would essentially outlaw homeschooling. No parent would be allowed to homeschool unless they showed […]

In this Christmas season we have an opportunity to help support homeschoolers who are struggling in other countries. We can make a difference for the "least of these," our bothers and sisters who are faced with legal challenges and lack of finances.We have sent out information periodically on Germany. The situation, unfortunately, is not getting […]

On October 9, 2006, the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education (DNPE) sent a letter to some homeschooling families in the Raleigh/Johnston County area requesting that they meet with a representative of DNPE on November 2 to review their school records. Parents agreeing to meet with the state official were required to bring their children […]

After a Home School Legal Defense Association member family filed a notice of intent to conduct home instruction with East Lyme Public Schools, they received a letter from the school district instructing them to make an appointment "in order to review the curriculum [the family would] be providing." Apparently this proposed curriculum review was an […]

As another reminder of attempts to take educational choices out of the hands of parents, legislation has been introduced in Congress proposing to amend the U.S. Constitution to make public education a "right."House Joint Resolution 29, introduced by U.S. Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., (D-Illinois) in 2005, is eerily similar to language in the United […]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Public schools take a lot of criticism, but a growing, loosely organized movement is now moving from harsh words to action -- with parents taking their own children out of public schools and exhorting other families to do the same.Led mainly by evangelical Christians, the movement depicts public education as hostile […]

Have you tried getting your parents to homeschool you, but they insist that they wouldn't know how to be teachers? Then you tried telling them about unschooling, but they thought that was just plain crazy? There is another option, and it's called online homeschooling... although technically it's really more plain online high school, with the […]