Showing posts with label HB 301. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HB 301. Show all posts

Saturday, January 29, 2011

New Hampshire mom persecuted for teaching religion in her homeschool

You may have first heard about Brenda Voydatch here. She's the homeschooling mom in Meredith, New Hampshire who was forced to send her life-long homeschooled daughter into public school because her ex-husband decided she was too religious.

Douglas Kennedy has done a follow up on this case for Fox News. For those of you who remember the Karen Maple case here in Vermont, Douglas covered that story for Fox News as well.

We'll be keeping an eye on this story to see the outcome, especially now that the New Hampshire legislature recently introduced House Bill 301, the Homeschool Freedom Act.

Let's all hope Brenda's daughter can return home and learn in peace!

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Homeschool Freedom Act Introduced in New Hampshire

Homeschool Freedom Act Introduced in New Hampshire

"The proposed law involves homeschoolers sending a simple one-time notification when a homeschool program begins. The bill also removes several provisions which granted state agencies unnecessary oversight and created unwarranted bureaucracy for school districts and parents. Numerous states have changed their laws in recent years along the same lines as H.B. 301, including Arizona and Nevada, because national homeschooling research has shown that needless bureaucracy just wastes parents’ time and taxpayers’ money."

Let's hope the rest of this country will begin to follow this lead. In some states it's amazingly simple to homeschool. In other states it's a bureaucratic nightmare. Homeschooling is catching on like wild fire and folks are realizing its massive savings to taxpayers, let alone the fact that the education homeschoolers receive far exceeds that of public schooling.

We're in tough economic times. Homeschooling may be the saving grace this country needs right now for more reasons than just saving the taxpayers money.

The new law may or may not help this persecuted homeschooling New Hampshire mom.

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