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September 11, 2006
HSLDA Responds to Hostile Article
The online version of the Evansville
Courier and Press published an opinion article September 6 suggesting
that homeschooling should be a topic in the election for school board.
The article evinced a hostile attitude toward the most successful form
of education in America.
Here is part of Home School Legal Defense Association attorney Scott Woodruff’s letter to the editor in response:
“Dear Editor:
The candidates for school board should be questioned
hard on how they plan to run the public schools. But since the board
does not control homeschooling, candidates’ attitudes toward
homeschooling are not relevant, contrary to what Kelley Coures has
written.
The simple fact is that no one running for school
board would have any authority to implement any of his suggestions.
Policy toward homeschooling is set at the state level, not the school
board level. Homeschooling is therefore not a legitimate school board
election topic. ...
The school board members should be elected based on
how they plan to use taxpayers’ money on behalf of parents who have
chosen to trust their children's education to the public school
system—not on their attitude toward students who are not in the system.”
Kelley Coures’ article was garnished with rehashed
sensational stories in which the press had connected negative events
with homeschooling.
He suggested draconian and unnecessary
regulations on homeschoolers: twice-yearly mandatory testing, mandatory
enrollment in public schools for low-testing students, mandated
curriculum content, physical exams to be filed with public schools,
homeschool teacher qualifications, and social worker visits for all
homeschoolers “throughout the year.”
This is a bracing reminder that the price of freedom
is eternal vigilance. Home School Legal Defense Association will
vigorously defend the freedom to homeschool against the attacks of
Kelley Coures and his ideological partners.
Thank you for being a member of HSLDA and helping us have the resources to continue the work to protect your freedoms.
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HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION
