Please sign this petition so that the Romeike family, a home schooling family, can stay in the USA.

Please help also by letting your friends and family know about this and getting them to sign the petition and SHARE it!

Here is the link to find the petition:www.hslda.org/Romeike

I asked if non-Americans can sign the petition the answer came back:  Yes, Anyone with an email address can sign the petition.

Home Schoolers Uwe and Hannelore Romeike Need Your Help NOW!

From: HSLDA’s Around the Globe newsletter

GHEC 2012—Success Beyond Measure

200 people from 26 countries and six continents gathered in Berlin, Germany in November 2012 to participate in the first-ever Global Home Education Conference. The event was a success beyond expectations as participants heard from leading German politicians and home education advocates. The event re-energized the beleaguered home education movement in Germany and provided a platform for the release of the Berlin Declaration, which calls on all governments to respect and protect the fundamental right of parents to home educate.

Conference Materials Available to All—Free!

The conference materials are being added to the GHEC2012 website and you are invited to benefit from these materials. Listen to German Parliament Member Patrick Meinhardt, HSLDA Founder Michael Farris, HSLDA Attorney Michael Donnelly, Classical Conversations Founder Leigh Bortins and many, many others. Click here to browse over 30 individual sessions packed full of tremendous value and encouragement.

If you are able, would you consider a small donation to help cover the funds to maintain the GHEC website and to help close a budget gap for the conference? Your support is greatly appreciated and will be used to support homeschooling freedom for many around the world!

Homeschool Leader Shares His Views on the GHEC

I also invite you to read this article written by Minnesota Association of Christian Home Educators Executive Director David Watkins as he describes his experience at the Berlin conference as being “Among True Champions.”

Mike Donnelly
Director of International Affairs

(GHEC: Global Home Educatiion Conference)

used with permission

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Needing help for your home schooling journey:

https://hef.org.nz/2011/needing-help-for-your-home-schooling-journey-2/

And

Here are a couple of links to get you started home schooling:

https://hef.org.nz/getting-started-2/

and

https://hef.org.nz/exemptions/

This link is motivational: https://hef.org.nz/2012/home-schooling-what-is-it-all-about/

Exemption Form online: https://hef.org.nz/2012/home-schooling-exemption-form-now-online/

Coming Events: https://hef.org.nz/2013/some-coming-events-for-home-education-during-2013-2/

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Social Security (Benefit Categories and Work Focus) Amendment Bill

Make a submission: Reject compulsory Early Education for 3 year olds

Here is a great article on Home schooling in Kansas

The three superintendents of the three major school districts in Johnson County, Kansas,  say they have little contact with home-schoolers, even though they are required to provide certain services, if requested. None even knew how many home-schooled students are in their districts.

But out there is a parallel system that runs counter to everything these superintendents practice on a day-to-day basis.

The fact that it apparently is a successful system is counter-intuitive. But if it did not usually work, and if it did not fulfill religious values, home-schooling would not be the fastest- growing form of education in America.

A Colorado homeschooling mother has won a social-services case sparked by a neighbor’s complaint about the family that escalated when a social worker did a “drive-by” and concluded they were planning to flee.

A neighbor of the single mother, whose identity has been withheld to protect her family’s privacy, tipped off social services that the mother had been homeschooling several children, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association.

When an investigator arrived at her door in the fall of 2011, the mother immediately contacted the HSLDA, the nation’s premiere legal defense fund dedicated to parents’ right to home educate.

The mother was instructed by HSLDA attorney Mike Donnelly to ask the social worker to leave, and the social worker complied. But this was only the beginning of the mother’s ordeal.

The social worker did not close the case and continued to investigate the mother’s right to homeschool on the grounds that some of her children have learning disabilities that public schools would be better suited to handle.

Donnelly argued against social services’ assertion that a traditional school setting is better equipped to meet the needs of special-needs children.

“Many families homeschool their children who have learning disabilities because they find that the children’s needs are better met in a one-on-one homeschool setting,” Donnelly said. “Research shows that this is true. It is intolerable that someone would question a family’s right to homeschool simply because their children have a learning disability.”