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What the homeschool dads wrote on a brown napkin
By James Hindman As Christian homeschool fathers we place a huge burden on the shoulders of our wives. Most of us leave the chaotic, timetable, unit study, book-laden home each morning for the quiet confines of our offices or place of employment. Many of us feel as though allowing our wives to stay home and sharpen our little arrows is victory in
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Public schools tap homeschoolers
By Jan Bontekoe The Hamilton County School Board revisited their July decision to not allow home educated students to participate on area school teams and voted this time to allow home educated students to participate beginning with winter sports. The rule applies to homeschooled students registered
From faithful stewardship arise homeschool liberties
Jeter memo enacted into state law By Claiborne Thornton Vulnerable. Perhaps as many as 95 percent of high school homeschoolers had been vulnerable for 15 years. It all started in the late 1990s in Lauderdale County in West Tennessee when an aggressive attendance officer took the “dual enrollment”
Home School Bill Introduced
Press Release Tennessee Home Education Association 17 Feveruary 2011 Nashville, TN – Legislation has been introduced today by Senator Mike Bell and Representative Bill Dunn to change the home school law in Tennessee. The Tennessee Home Education Association has observed that much that takes
Swedes face homeschooling ban
(Editor’s note: Gary Johnson was a friend of mine back when we were both single missionaries, he was with Athletes in Action in Sweden and I with MTW in the Netherlands. Gary married a Swedish national and he and his wife, Linda, just welcomed their 11th child. We view his story as a cautionary tale.
Chattanooga homeschool events will continue with prayer
By Gary Hargraves A complaint by a Wisconsin group has prompted Hamilton County schools Superintendent Jim Scales to ban prayer over loudspeakers at pre-game events, forcing the system to become more fully consistent with its anti-christian presuppositions. Christians in Chattanooga should not be surprised
Atherton seeks judgeship
Homeschool activist and board member Jeff Atherton took part in caucuses April 29 in a bid to obtain the Republican nomination for Chancery Court judge. Homeschoolers busied themselves to support Jeff, the vice president of CSTHEA, who has been on the board since 1992. He is the father of four children,
Obamacare & Home Educators
Our homeschool rally day March 23 coincided with a hastily planned public protest in Nashville of Tennesseans upset at the passage of Obamacare in the House of Representatives two days before. (See a report of the rally on Page 15 of the Esprit Newsletter.) There was much mingling of the two groups
Legal Issues Seminar (online audio)
The audio from the Legal Issues Seminar presented by Mr. Jeff Atherton is available here.
Bredesen signs diploma bill
Tennessee law has changed to end practices of discrimination against homeschool diplomas awarded by so-called umbrella schools, which home educators in the state gather under to keep from getting rained on by state bureaucracy. State-licensed day care centers and police departments had turned up their