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In a message dated 00-12-04 10:18:49 EST, you write:

<< Actually this is probably the worst place to go for legal information.
They do not post the laws, just their interpretation and they do not provide
links to inclusive state organizations, only to those that will toe their
party line. >>

Part of their purpose (okay, their only real purpose) is to get people to
sign up (at $100, it used to be; maybe more now) per year for their (used to
be) insurance, which is now representation (WAY more vague, yet more honest,
since it's not insurance). They use scare tactics to get people to send them
money, which is used for right-wing political purposes. And they wouldn't
defend an unschooler anyway, so if you're unschooling that site's not going
to be of much benefit except in an educational sort of way (like reading the
opposition's flyers or looking at pictures of a trainwreck). If a family has
a problem and the resolution of that problem can further HSLDA's political
causes in that state, they might go to court for them, but their purpose is
not to make homeschooling easier for a family, but to make it more uniformly
their conservative form of homeschooling.

I wish I could comfort you with the thought that I might be a reactionary
exaggerator here, but I'm not.

Sandra

Lynda

No, you aren't reactionary! We have all seen the damage they have done
either to homeschoolers as a whole in some states by messing with the laws
or to homeschoolers as individuals such as Cheryl.

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: <SandraDodd@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 7:51 AM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Sources of information (and what sort of
information)


> In a message dated 00-12-04 10:18:49 EST, you write:
>
> << Actually this is probably the worst place to go for legal information.
> They do not post the laws, just their interpretation and they do not
provide
> links to inclusive state organizations, only to those that will toe their
> party line. >>
>
> Part of their purpose (okay, their only real purpose) is to get people to
> sign up (at $100, it used to be; maybe more now) per year for their (used
to
> be) insurance, which is now representation (WAY more vague, yet more
honest,
> since it's not insurance). They use scare tactics to get people to send
them
> money, which is used for right-wing political purposes. And they wouldn't
> defend an unschooler anyway, so if you're unschooling that site's not
going
> to be of much benefit except in an educational sort of way (like reading
the
> opposition's flyers or looking at pictures of a trainwreck). If a family
has
> a problem and the resolution of that problem can further HSLDA's political
> causes in that state, they might go to court for them, but their purpose
is
> not to make homeschooling easier for a family, but to make it more
uniformly
> their conservative form of homeschooling.
>
> I wish I could comfort you with the thought that I might be a reactionary
> exaggerator here, but I'm not.
>
> Sandra
>
>
>
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