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Topic: History
| Title: | The History of Homeschoolers’ Struggle to Be Free | | Speaker: | J. Michael Smith
| | Length: | 45–60 minutes
| Type:
| General Session
| Topic:
| Encouragement, History, Legal
| Audience:
| All, New Homeschoolers, Veteran Homeschoolers
| Description:
| The relative freedom homeschoolers enjoy today did not always exist. Michael Smith takes his audience back to the early days of the modern homeschool movement and describes the legal situation pioneering homeschoolers faced, the sacrifices they made, and the battles they fought to establish the freedom we know today. His timeline will bring the audience up to the current struggles homeschoolers are engaged in and provide a glimpse of future dangers that will require vigilance on the part of each homeschooling family. Just as God required Joshua to establish a memorial by removing 12 stones from the Jordan River so that the fathers would tell their children of God’s miraculous deliverance, homeschooling parents should tell their children the history of the battles homeschoolers faced. This is the only way we will preserve home education to the next, and future, generations. |
| Title: | Homeschooling: The Struggle to Be Free | | Speaker: | James R. Mason
| | Length: | 60 minutes
| Type:
| General Session
| Topic:
| Education, History, Legal, Legislative
| Audience:
| All
| Description:
| Homeschoolers have won the right to teach their own children in their own homes. How did this happen? Who gets the credit? Is that struggle over? Jim recounts the political history of American education and proves that the price of liberty is still eternal vigilance. |
| Title: | The History and Future of American Education | | Speaker: | Scott Somerville
| | Length: | 50 minutes
| Type:
| Workshop
| Topic:
| Education, History
| Audience:
| All
| Description:
| The Massachusetts Puritans enacted the first compulsory school law in 1647 to make sure that every citizen of their new commonwealth could read the Scriptures. Today, second-graders in public schools can’t do a book report on a Bible story. How did we get here from there? Where do we go tomorrow? |
| Title: | Defending the Freedom to Homeschool | | Speaker: | Michael Donnelly
| | Length: | 45 minutes
| Type:
| General Session
| Topic:
| History, Legal, Legislative, Motivational, Political
| Audience:
| All
| Description:
| Homeschooling is legal in all 50 states, but forces are still at work to capture our children’s minds, bodies, and souls. These forces seek to erode our current freedoms and our will to preserve them. What can we do to ensure that the blessings and freedom we have to homeschool are secured for posterity? Come hear HSLDA attorney and homeschooling father Michael Donnelly answer that question. |
| Title: | Parents’ Rights—A Crisis Is Coming | | Speaker: | Michael Donnelly
| | Length: | 45 minutes
| Type:
| General Session
| Topic:
| Education, Encouragement, History, Legal, Legislative, Lobbying, Motivational, Parenting, Political, Why Homeschool
| Audience:
| All
| Description:
| In 1923, the United States Supreme Court ruled that parents have the fundamental right to direct the education and upbringing of their children. So why are parental rights suddenly endangered? Come hear HSLDA attorney and homeschooling father Michael Donnelly discuss the next biggest threat to homeschool freedom and what you can do about it. |
| Title: | A Hitlerian Legacy? Germany’s Treatment of Homeschooling | | Speaker: | Michael Donnelly
| | Length: | 45-55 minutes
| Type:
| General Session
| Topic:
| Education, History, Legislative
| Audience:
| All
| Description:
| German homeschoolers are threatened with fines, jail and worse. If homeschooling is a human right, why does a civilized nation treat homeschoolers like this? What are parallel societies and why are German judges and policy makers so afraid of them? Is the German homeschool experience the edge of night for America? Could this pernicious German philosophy make its way across the Atlantic to America and re-impose the difficult early days of American homeschooling? What is HSLDA doing to support positive change for our brother and sister homeschoolers in Germany, and what can you do to help? Come hear HSLDA staff attorney for Germany and homeschooling father Michael Donnelly answer these important questions. |
| Title: | The Miracle Behind Homeschoolers’ Victory In The Recent California Appellate Court Case | | Speaker: | J. Michael Smith
| | Length: | 45-60 minutes
| Type:
| General Session, Keynote, Workshop
| Topic:
| Encouragement, History, Parenting, Spiritual
| Audience:
| New Homeschoolers, Support Group Leaders, Veteran Homeschoolers
| Description:
| On August 8, 2008, the California Appellate Court in Los Angeles ruled that homeschoolers could operate as private schools in California. This came after an earlier decision in which the same court said that homeschoolers could not operate as private schools in California and had to be certified teachers. This is the greatest court victory in history of homeschooling in California and one of the major homeschooling cases in homeschooling history. Mike Smith shares the behind-the-scenes details that only a few are privy to, which demonstrates the sovereignty of God working many years prior to this decision to bring about the circumstances that would be used as the winning argument in the case. This talk will not only be very informative about what happened in this most important case and how it was won, but will encourage anyone who ever doubts that God is involved intimately in their homeschool program and in the homeschooling situations in California. This is a must for every homeschooler in California to hear and to understand as they will never be the same after they hear this spine-tingling story of victory. |
| Title: | It’s Time to be Wise | | Speaker: | J. Michael Smith
| | Length: | 45-60 minutes
| Type:
| General Session, Keynote, Support Group Leaders, Workshop
| Topic:
| Education, Encouragement, History, Spiritual
| Audience:
| All
| Description:
| In this address, Mike contrasts godly wisdom (which Christians should be trying to follow) and worldly wisdom (wisdom from below) as it relates to specific issues that we all deal with in the homeschool community. He explains that there are two conflicting worldviews or belief systems today, orthodoxy and progressivism. Orthodoxy is committed to an external, definable and transcendent authority for truth. This truth comes from God and is given to us primarily through His Word, the Bible. In contrast, progressivism asserts that moral authority is to be defined by the spirit of the modern age, a spirit of rationalism and subjectivism. Truth tends to be viewed as a process, as a reality and is ever unfolding depending upon the circumstances. He will explain how certain important U.S. Supreme Court decisions have been affected by this new progressive thinking. Mike will then break down how these two differing views are affecting education and specifically, the freedom to home educate. The good news is that truth sets one free. The good news is we know the truth, we simply have to live and battle for the truth. Homeschoolers have demonstrated their willingness to do so, hence our hope for the future. |
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