Topic: Legal
| Title: | How to Protect Your Family Against a Truant Officer or Social Worker Visit | | Speaker: | J. Michael Smith | | Length: | 45—60 minutes | | Type: | Workshop | | Topic: | Child Protective Services, Dealing with Social Workers, Legal | | Audience: | New Homeschoolers, Parents, Support Group Leaders, Veteran Homeschoolers | | Description: | As the government’s ever—growing role expands to encompass family life and decision—making, the information presented in this seminar is critical for every attendee. Michael Smith calls upon over two decades of defending homeschooling families against social services and child protective service contacts to inform the audience of the newest threat to their freedom. This session primarily addresses your state’s laws relating to social services contacts and provides general application for other states as well. Audiences find this session “very, very informative,” “clearly presented, enjoyable to listen to,” and “a necessity.” |
| Title: | The History of Homeschooling | | Speaker: | Darren Jones | | Length: | 45 minutes | | Type: | General Session, Workshop | | Topic: | Legal, Motivational | | Audience: | All, New Homeschoolers | | Description: | Many new homeschoolers do not realize how dramatically homeschooling has grown and changed in the last 30 years. Come hear about the exciting victories and narrow escapes as God has worked to protect parents’ freedom to teach their children at home. |
| 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: | Charter Schools: The Price Is Too High | | Speaker: | Scott Somerville | | Length: | 50 minutes | | Type: | General Session, Workshop | | Topic: | Education, Legal, Political | | Audience: | All | | Description: | Christian homeschoolers try to teach their children to love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength. This is hard work, especially for parents with one income and many children. Many states now have “virtual charter schools” that offer tax—funded instruction over the Internet. Come find out why many state constitutions prohibit Christian parents from using charter schools to disciple their children in their homes. |
| Title: | Your Home Is Your Castle | | Speaker: | Scott Somerville | | Length: | 50 minutes | | Type: | Workshop | | Topic: | Dealing with Social Workers, Legal | | Audience: | All | | Description: | Under the English common law, “a man’s home is his castle.” Our Founders wrote this into the Bill of Rights in the Fourth Amendment, which says, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.” Police respect the Fourth Amendment rights of criminal defendants, but most social workers think the Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to them. The Constitution really does protect your home, and HSLDA has won a number of cases where social workers violated homeschoolers’ rights. In this workshop, HSLDA attorney Scott Somerville explains your rights under the Constitution. |
| Title: | CPS vs. Family | | Speaker: | Tom Sanders | | Length: | 50 minutes | | Type: | Workshop | | Topic: | Legal | | Audience: | Parents | | Description: | True stories and first—hand accounting of the current war being waged by CPS against families, with suggestions to help protect your children. |
| 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: | Parental Rights: It’s Now Or Never | | Speaker: | Michael P. Farris | | Length: | 30–60 minutes | | Type: | General Session | | Topic: | Legal, Political | | Audience: | All | | Description: | Hear how the Supreme Court and our nation’s lower courts are failing to hold parental rights to the same legal standard as fundamental rights like speech and press, and how European court decisions on children’s rights are influencing our U.S. judicial system. Michael Farris describes threats to parental rights that involve the political right, political left, and international law, and proposes a solution that will be the battle of the century for homeschoolers and other pro—family forces. |
| Title: | Your Parental Rights: The Left's Next Target | | Speaker: | Scott Woodruff | | Length: | 50 minutes | | Type: | General Session, Workshop | | Topic: | Legal, Political | | Audience: | All | | Description: | Hear how recent developments in America and Europe, are flashing warning signals to us that basic parental rights are in jeopardy. The election of Barack Obama is a dream come true for those who would like to increase the power of the central government at the expense of the citizen. Some rights, like freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion, get the highest protection because they are specifically listed in the Constitution. But one of the essential rights upon which our ability to homeschool rests, the right of a parent to direct the education and upbringing of a child, is not listed. Only an amendment to the Constitution explicitly protecting fundamental parental rights will preserve what we have won after decades of struggle. The “wish list” of the left includes a goal of reducing parental rights to a mere privilege subject to government licensing and the eradication of homeschooling as we know it. It’s a race to the finish to see if we can amend the Constitution before the left can achieve its antifamily agenda, and the stakes are unimaginably high. Don’t ask when it will begin. The battle of the century has already begun. |
| Title: | Why We Need the Parental Rights Amendment | | Speaker: | Dewitt T. Black | | Length: | 60 minutes | | Type: | General Session, Workshop | | Topic: | History, Legal | | Audience: | All | | Description: | Explains the constitutional basis for parental rights, the current threat posed by court decisions and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the need for adoption of the Parental Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
| Title: | Why Teens Need the Parental Rights Amendment | | Speaker: | Joel D. Grewe | | Length: | 45 minutes | | Type: | Workshop | | Topic: | History, Legal | | Audience: | Parents, Teens | | Description: | Joel explains the constitutional basis for parental rights, the current threat posed by court decisions and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the need for adoption of the Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. |
| 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: | Creature of the State? | | Speaker: | Michael Donnelly | | Length: | 45–60 minutes | | Type: | General Session, Keynote, Q & A, Support Group Leaders, Workshop | | Topic: | Education, Encouragement, History, Legal, Motivational | | Audience: | All, Fathers, Mothers, New Homeschoolers, Parents | | Description: | In 1925 the U.S. Supreme Court said children are not mere creatures of the state. The 1945 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that parents have the “prior right” to decide what kind of education their children will have. Is homeschooling a “human right” of the first order? HSLDA Staff Attorney, homeschooling father of seven, and Director of International Affairs Michael Donnelly explores this question and shares a presentation he delivered at the world’s largest human rights conference on the philosophy of law and social philosophy. In this talk, Donnelly examines philosophies on the relationship between the family and the state and looks at how human rights doctrine is applied globally towards homeschooling. |
| 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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