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Mar. 28, 2008 - another day....another field trip (or two)
Today the big kids and I went here.
We don't study this time period until next year but since we won't be here then.....I decided to go now.
It was another "no photos please" but even if photos were allowed....it wouldn't seem proper.
I went away with this quote speaking the most to me.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.
Pastor Martin Niemoller
Our second "field trip" for the day was really an open house.
HSLDA held their 25th anniversary open house at Patrick Henry College today.
"HSLDA was founded in 1983, with the goal of establishing the legal right of parents to teach their children at home."
"Now, 25 years later, homeschooling is legal in some form in all 50 states, homeschool laws are constantly being improved, and HSLDA member families number over 80,000. "
Let us not get comfortable with the freedom we experience to home educate our kids. We've seen only recently how fragile that freedom can be with the court case in California.
We are still opposed on many sides. Our freedom to raise our kids as God has called us to will be threatened in the courts and (as J. Michael Smith said tonight) it will be threatened slyly by the growth of public charter schools. I went away with the intent of teaching my kids the history of homeschooling. How just 20 some years ago parents were being jailed so we could have the freedoms we have today. I don't want their efforts, the price they paid, to be in vain or given up so easily. I want my children to catch the vision. Giving God the glory.
Remembering the reason, renewing the vision.
(I'll now get off my soap box and resume our regularly scheduled blogging....)
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Mar. 28, 2008 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by 4sweetums |
That's a wonderful idea to teach your children the history of homeschooling. We should all do that. That quote stuck with me after the Holocaust museum, too.
Blessings,
Dawn |
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Apr. 4, 2008 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by Anonymous |
Did you go through the whole museum? We just did the children's area and that was incredible and unbelievable. Someday I want to go through the whole thing.
Are you going to be driving through Indiana???
Cindy |
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Simply trying to obey Gods' call to raise up our children in the way they should go and to school them at home in the process.
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