The purpose of this form is to record the incidents which occur in relationships between ND home educators and the ND public school system and or with respect to the home education laws. The NDHSA office regularly receives verbal reports, but having the detailed and verifiable data from the source is needed to effectively use this information to help legislators understand these issues and encourage their support of home education liberty. This form also can be used for reporting incidents such as if you decide to leave North Dakota because of the home education laws or not come to North Dakota because of the home education laws. Print, complete and send this form to the NDHSA office. Click HERE for the form in pdf format.
This map shows why home school families have been leaving North Dakota or choosing not to come to North Dakota for the last 20 years.
We are simply a bad state to home school in based on the present ND home school laws!
The NDHSA 2009 legislative efforts aim toward turning North Dakota from a red home school state to a green home school state. Please help home schoolers by explaining the details to your legislators.
Green = States requiring no notice: No state requirement for parents to initiate any contact.
Gold = States with low regulation: State requires parental notification only.
Orange = States with moderate regulation: State requires parents to send notification, test scores, and/or professional evaluation of student progress.
Red = State with high regulation: State requires parents to send notification or achievement test scores and/or professional evaluation, plus other requirements (e.g. curriculum approval by the state, teacher qualification of parents, or home visits by state officials).
"Why Should God Bless America?"
The song video from the Values Voter Debate (September 18, 2007) with lyrics below.
Why should God bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back
On everything that made her what she is.
Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sin and heal our land
The courts ruled prayer out of our schools
In June of ‘62
Told the children “you are your own God now
So you can make the rules”
O say can you see what that choice
Has cost us to this day
America, one nation under God, has gone astray
Why should god bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything
That made her what she is
Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sins and heal our land
In ‘73 the Courts said we
Could take the unborn lives
The choice is yours don’t worry now
It’s not a wrong, it’s your right
But just because they made it law
Does not change God’s command
The most that we can hope for is
God’s mercy on our land
Why should God bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything
That made her what she is
Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sins and heal our land
(Reading from 2nd Chronicles 7:14) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land
God have mercy on America forgive her sins and heal our land
For ND Home School Law background thinking:
"Ah consensus ... the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?" --- Margaret Thatcher
Nobel Prize Economist Milton Friedman with the best case for limited government ever made.
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Colleges seeing quality in those homeschooled
At Placidia Andalón's home in Rialto, school starts each morning with the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer.
She has taught her 11-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter about evolution and creation. In lessons on building good character, Andalón, 34, tells her children to seek guidance from the Bible.
Like Andalón, a growing number of parents across the nation are educating their kids at home for reasons including faith, a driving force behind the rise of the modern homeschool movement.
And in society at large, homeschoolers have become more accepted, with businesses and institutions of higher learning taking an interest in homeschooled children and their parents.
Colleges and universities that ignored or turned away homeschoolers 10 years ago are now reaching out to them, said Ian Slatter, spokesman for the Home School Legal Defense Association. More...
The Fully Informed Juror - An Important Part of Every Home School Curriculum!
True or False? When you sit on a jury, you have the right to vote your conscience. True, but it's extremely unlikely the judge will tell you this, because the law doesn't require it. Instead, expect the judge to tell you that you may consider "only the facts" of the case and you are not to let your conscience, your opinion of the law, or the defendant's motives affect your decision. Most Americans are aware of their right to trial by jury, but how many know that the jury has more power than anyone else in the courtroom - and that in pursuit of a just verdict, jurors are free to judge the merits of the law itself, its use in the case at hand, or the motives of the accused. More...
The NDHSA Board initiated memberships on June 13th, 2006! Become a NDHSA member today by clicking here. You may also GIVE A MEMBERSHIP SCHOLARSHIP TO A FAMILY IN NEED.
Why We Homeschool - My journey to understanding..My wife, Ana, gave me a wonderful article she had written about homeschooling. I decided to feature her article because she has done a great job of articulating the benefits of homeschooling. Many parents who would love to homeschool cannot do so for various reasons. But for those who are considering starting this journey, Ana's article will give you a great foundation.More..
Back to School: Organization Gives Reasons to ConsiderHomeschooling Considering Homeschooling (http://www.consideringhomeschooling.com ) a U.S. national homeschool outreach that recruits Christian parents to homeschool, is asking Christian parents to consider the benefits of home education as the back to school frenzy begins.
"Homeschoolers overall do better academically, socially, and most important, spiritually," said Charles B. Lowers, Executive Director of Considering Homeschooling. He urges, "This September, why not take that leap of faith and teach your children yourself at home?"
Lowers states that the majority of Christian parents still send their children to public school, not realizing the catastrophic spiritual and social damage most children may suffer there. While some parents maintain that their local school is different, the evidence is overwhelmingly clear, says Lowers, that the public schools are no place for Christian children. More..
Homeschooling vs. Public Schooling When we consign our children to public schools, we feel satisfied that they are receiving 'quality education.' But, are we really getting our money's worth? More importantly, are the children gaining anything from this kind of a learning procedure?
Socialization is hailed as one of the greatest advantage of schools. This is the place where the child picks up the rudiments of social skills that help him survive. But in truth, a regular school-going child can interact only with his peers. He may bully younger children or fear older ones. He does not know how to behave with an adult. This is because in the school environment he interacts only with his peers. A homeschooling environment brings in a more natural social environment. More..
Homeschooling, Can I Do It? Many parents would like to homeschool their children but are afraid they don't have the training or ability to be their children's teacher. This is certainly understandable, because most parents never had any formal training to be a teacher. However, most parents don't have to worry about this issue. There is literally a supermarket of education resources available for parents to choose from to help them homeschool their children..... http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel24.htm
by Joel Turtel
God has commanded us to teach our children; but how many Christians are obeying that commandment? There is always some teaching going on that we can’t control. Movies, television, and music videos teach. The daily news teaches. What does a child learn when he sees movie stars lionizing a convicted murderer? A disgraced public figure making a fortune on his tell-all book? Towns and cities holding parades to celebrate behavior that the Bible calls abomination? It’s hard, if not impossible, to shield children from these “lessons.”
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The philosophy of the schoolhouse in this generation is the philosophy of the government in the next generation. -- attributed to Abraham Lincoln
Meet My Teachers: Mom And Dad "A growing number of affluent parents think they can do better than any school." More..
Let's Google and Yahoo Our Kids Education Bureaucratic, government-controlled public schools will never give your kids the kind of joyous education they deserve, the kind your children can get in a homeschooling environment. At home, your kids can learn from Google, Yahoo, learning software, or hundreds..... http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel19.htm
by Joel Turtel
Home School Isn't About Education
About 20 years ago, a group of parents began to feel a deep desire to have their children grow up at home rather than in an institutional setting. Thus began what is now referred to as the Homeschooling Movement. These early "homeschoolers" my friend refers to as Pioneers: parents who knew God wanted them to take total responsibility for raising (including educating) their own children. These Pioneers were determined to have their children home during the day in spite of the difficulties (and sometimes the dangers) this decision created.
During this Pioneer stage, there was another group of parents who heard about the benefits of homeschooling, but who decided to wait to see if the Pioneers would be successful before becoming homeschoolers themselves. These my friend called Settlers. Once the Settlers were convinced of the benefits of homeschooling, they joined in. However, unlike the Pioneers, many Settlers weren't sure they would homeschool for the long term so they simply copied the public schools' curricula and sequencing methods just in case it turned out that homeschooling didn't work for them. And, if it didn't, their children could be mainstreamed back into "school."
By the late 1990's public schools were receiving such negative publicity, and homeschooling such positive publicity, many more parents began to consider homeschooling as a viable alternative. They knew little about homeschooling except that it had to be better than the public school. These families my friend called Refugees: parents who were escaping a negative situation, but with no real understanding of what they were doing or why; nor did many of them want to know. They simply wanted their children to be educated as if the children were "in school" but without the negative context they perceived existed in the public school setting.
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Dr. Bartlett's Favorite Book A Christian Philosophy of Education by Gordon Clark. Order via the NDHSA Book Store hereEnter the Christian Worldview Essay Contest here.
Reduce State Taxes - Homeschool - The ND DPI reported 1,331 homeschool students from the 2004-2005 Pupil Membership Report (received school services). The average state aid per public school pupil was $7,041.52, therefore the home schoolers receiving school services saved ND taxpayers at least $4,686,131 in 2004-2005. There is no count of home schoolers filing statements of intent without requesting school services, which we think is a large percentage. Additionally, many don't file statement of intents before age 7 or after children turn 16 which is also saving tax money. Homeschooling saves US tax payers over $10 billion per year.
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