Homeschool Diversity Project 2007, Grassroots

I receieved this as a link to a blog on the Home Education Magazine website, it has a note to homeschoolers to stand up and make yourselves known to your representatives in Congress. I have posted several things from HSDLA on here and this is obviously the other side of the spectrum so I am posting this as well. I think it shows the diversity that is homeschooling these days. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MAY HAVE INFLAMATORY STATEMENTS AGAINST HSDLA SO FEEL FREE TO HIT THE DELETE BUTTON IF YOU DO NOT AGREE!--Other than that enjoy!--Tabbi

http://www.homeedmag.com/blogs/newscomm/?p=675 (see the rest of the blog here)

For too many years, the homeschooling community has stood by and allowed the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) to politicize how families choose to educate their children and represent us as a personal constituency to our elected representatives.

Over the years, HSLDA has championed many non-homeschooling issues. Those issues, instead of representing homeschooling families, have represented the extreme right wing of the Republican Party and a theocratic, conservative agenda.

HSLDA has crafted an image of homeschoolers as HSLDA’s Republican Party loyalists, and portrayed homeschoolers as a large fundamentalist Christian voting block. Perhaps only ten to twenty percent of the homeschooling community joins HSLDA, so obviously, their manufactured image is false and misleading in order to serve a personal political agenda. It follows that eighty to ninety percent of our community who are independent have no organized lobby.


And just in case you were looking for another organization if you did not agree with HSDLA then here is one for homeschoolers of all persuasions http://www.nhen.org/homeschool.asp