Dawn Lincoln's blog
One Parent's Demand for the Truth About the Legality of Homeschooling
Submitted by Dawn Lincoln on Wed, 2006-08-02 15:36.GETTING IT OUT OF MY SYSTEM: ONE PARENT’S DEMAND FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LEGALITY OF HOMESCHOOLING.
By: Attorney Deborah Stevenson, Executive Director, National Home Education Legal Defense
Nothing makes me angrier than a lie, except when a lie is repeated so often that people believe it to be truth. I’m sick of lies, distorted truth, spin, and revisionist history. Can we just get back to reality? Can we just hold people accountable for their purposeful distortions?
Can we just set the record straight?
The lie that makes me the angriest is the lie that “It’s legal to homeschool “now”.” The implication in that statement is the lie. The implication is that it wasn’t legal to homeschool before, or that homeschooling only became legal in the past 20 years or so. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
DiggTown Meeting: NH Style
Submitted by Dawn Lincoln on Sat, 2006-02-25 15:07.There can be a lot of confusion over how town government really works in NH. I assume that every state is different, but you don’t have to be an “outsider” to wonder how a town meeting actually runs and why town residents, new and old, should learn all they can about how it works and why it’s so important for every eligible resident to attend both their annual town meeting and school district meeting.
Homeschooling in NH
Submitted by Dawn Lincoln on Fri, 2006-01-27 17:02.In 2005, HB406 was introduced to the NH House Education Committee. The intention of HB406 is to reduce the burdensome and unnecessary government restrictions placed upon NH homeschoolers. In summary the current law states that a homeschooler must submit an annual notification, an annual curriculum plan that must be acknowledged by the party it is sent to and an annual evaluative process that can be satisfied through testing, portfolio review or other methods agreed upon by the parent and the participating agency. HB406 removes the curriculm component, leaving annual noticifaction and evaluation.
HB406 came out of committee with an Ought to Pass with amendment recommendation. The amendment was a minor change to the original language that did not negatively effect it's intent in any way. It passed the House vote and was sent to the NH Senate Education Committee.
