Topic: Legislative
| 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: | Preserving Liberty for Future Generations: The Battle for Homeschool Freedom and Parental Rights on Capitol Hill | | Speaker: | William A. Estrada | | Length: | 30–60 minutes | | Type: | Workshop | | Topic: | Legal, Legislative, Lobbying, Motivational, Political | | Audience: | All | | Description: | Will uses ripped—from—the—headlines stories and personal anecdotes to share what issues homeschoolers face on Capitol Hill, the political environment, what HSLDA is doing at the federal level, and why the Parental Rights Amendment is so important. For longer general sessions, Will goes into detail about the history of the federal government and homeschooling, threats to our freedoms at the federal level, the battles that are being fought, the victories that are being won, and what is on the horizon. |
| 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: | Homeschooling and Parental Rights—Freedom Under Fire | | Speaker: | J. Michael Smith | | Length: | 45—60 minutes | | Type: | General Session, Keynote, Q & A, Workshop | | Topic: | Encouragement, Legal, Legislative, Lobbying, Motivational | | Audience: | All, New Homeschoolers, Veteran Homeschoolers | | Description: | Parental rights and religious freedom have been the two foundations to establish a constitutional right for parents to teach their children at home. The U.S. Supreme Court some years back weakened the free exercise of religion claim as a foundation for homeschooling so that in order for homeschoolers to claim a fundamental right to homeschool, they must be able to combine the free exercise right with the parental rights claim. In other words, both rights have to co—exist. Currently, this is not a problem, but because of the fragile nature of freedom, moral decay, complacency and apathy, homeschooling freedoms are in jeopardy. An additional threat that is brewing but not well known, is the opposition to homeschooling from the intellectual elites, e.g., law and college professors. This opposition is based on a belief that the state, through public schools, should have access to all children to teach tolerance for others, which leads to collectivism. Homeschoolers are in their cross—hairs. We are clearly at risk. |
| Title: | Elites to Homeschoolers: “You’re Next!” | | Speaker: | Michael Donnelly | | Length: | 50 minutes | | Type: | General Session, Support Group Leaders, Workshop | | Topic: | Legal, Legislative, Political | | Audience: | Parents, Support Group Leaders, Veteran Homeschoolers | | Description: | Increasing numbers of intellectual elites are calling for dramatic regulation and even eradication of private and home education. Although the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized parents’ rights to direct the education and upbringing of their children, American homeschoolers need to prepare to confront growing resistance to freedom in education—especially homeschooling. Come hear Mike Donnelly, HSLDA attorney, director of international relations and homeschooling father, as he examines this growing threat and what American homeschoolers need to do to meet it. |
| Title: | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: A Guide to Effective Lobbying for the Homeschool Family | | Speaker: | William A. Estrada | | Length: | 30–60 minutes | | Type: | Workshop | | Topic: | Legal, Legislative, Lobbying, Motivational, Political | | Audience: | All | | Description: | You may live 5,000 miles from Washington, D.C., but you can still make a difference. Find out how with HSLDA Federal Relations Director Will Estrada as he presents a compelling case for why and how every single homeschool family can be an effective lobbyist on the issues that are important to homeschoolers. Drawing on Will’s own experience as a federally registered lobbyist for HSLDA, this workshop will offer informative, practical advice for effective lobbying and will answer every homeschooler’s specific questions. Discover how to make a difference in the political world—whether you are an experienced political junkie or a busy homeschool mom who’s never tackled politics before. |
| Title: | The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child—It Takes a Village to Raise Your Child | | Speaker: | William A. Estrada | | Length: | 30–60 minutes | | Type: | General Session, Workshop | | Topic: | History, Legal, Legislative, Lobbying, Political | | Audience: | All, Parents | | Description: | Will goes into detail about the history, content, and effects of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. He discusses the dangers it would pose to homeschool freedom, parental rights, and the sovereignty of the United States. Will discusses the shifting political support for the treaty, and what freedom-loving citizens can do to fight against this dangerous international treaty. He closes with a discussion of the Parental Rights Amendment, and how it would protect American families from the dangers of this U.N. treaty. |
| Title: | Constitutional Liberty, Social Services, and Your Front Door | | Speaker: | William A. Estrada | | Length: | 30–45 minutes | | Type: | Workshop | | Topic: | History, Legal, Legislative, Political | | Audience: | All, Parents | | Description: | Will gives a historical review of the Founders’ intentions when they drafted the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. He then discusses how many of the provisions in the U.S. Constitution directly protect homeschooling families. Will concludes with an informative and practical discussion that includes real-life examples of how parents can protect their Constitutional freedom even when an irate social worker is demanding entrance into their home. |
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