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Topic: Legal
| 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: | 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
| Audience:
| All, New Homeschoolers
| Description:
| Many new homeschoolers do not realize how homeschooling has grown in the last 25 years. Come hear about the exciting ways 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: | 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. Mike Farris describes three 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 home schoolers 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: | Parental Rights: The Next Great Battle for Homeschoolers | | 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. Additionally, since the parental rights foundational claim is an “implicit” right, not an “explicit” right—meaning parental rights is not specifically spelled out in the Constitution—parental rights as we know it today is teetering and could be in trouble in the future. Mike will explain why parental rights are under attack and provide a solution on how we can maintain the current freedoms we have to teach our children at home. |
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