JFC, the HSLDA is well and truly unhinged
Sep. 14th, 2019 01:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyFor reference, despite their claims they're not really for homeschoolers. They're for fundamentalist Christian homeschoolers who are really into spanking their kids. If you're homeschooling because, say, you hate homework and like sleeping in till noon, they don't want anything to do with you.
They're still happy to take your money, though!
And this is what they've been blathering about apparently the past few months.
In Maine, you're required to notify the state every year that you're homeschooling, by sending a notice with your child's age and the year you'll be teaching them. And apparently the HSDLA is trying to rile people up because Maine is now offering a form (!!!) and that form has space for the birthdate instead of age (!!!) and, for administrative purposes, sets start and end dates for the school year (!!!) and that's just wrong. Oh, and they also tell parents that if they don't provide an email address they won't get acknowledgement of receipt in their email, and that's bad too because parents might feel they have to provide an email address. And they ask parents in the form to confirm that they'll follow all relevant homeschool laws, even though the law doesn't require parents to confirm that.
I'm counting four articles about this up at the HSDLA website, one of which compares put-upon homeschool parents who are valiantly fighting against government overreach (how dare they ask for the child's birthdate instead of their age!) to Frederick Douglass. No, really, they quoted him: “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”
Because, you know, one day you're quietly agreeing to share your child's birthdate instead of their age, and the next you're on a plantation, hoeing cotton.
This, by the way, is also the most ridiculous deliberate misreading of the Bible I've ever seen. There is absolutely no way you can say "The Bible forbids me from ever giving even slightly more information to a government than is legally required, even if it's technically information that they already have" with a straight face.
They're still happy to take your money, though!
And this is what they've been blathering about apparently the past few months.
In Maine, you're required to notify the state every year that you're homeschooling, by sending a notice with your child's age and the year you'll be teaching them. And apparently the HSDLA is trying to rile people up because Maine is now offering a form (!!!) and that form has space for the birthdate instead of age (!!!) and, for administrative purposes, sets start and end dates for the school year (!!!) and that's just wrong. Oh, and they also tell parents that if they don't provide an email address they won't get acknowledgement of receipt in their email, and that's bad too because parents might feel they have to provide an email address. And they ask parents in the form to confirm that they'll follow all relevant homeschool laws, even though the law doesn't require parents to confirm that.
I'm counting four articles about this up at the HSDLA website, one of which compares put-upon homeschool parents who are valiantly fighting against government overreach (how dare they ask for the child's birthdate instead of their age!) to Frederick Douglass. No, really, they quoted him: “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”
Because, you know, one day you're quietly agreeing to share your child's birthdate instead of their age, and the next you're on a plantation, hoeing cotton.
This, by the way, is also the most ridiculous deliberate misreading of the Bible I've ever seen. There is absolutely no way you can say "The Bible forbids me from ever giving even slightly more information to a government than is legally required, even if it's technically information that they already have" with a straight face.
no subject
Date: 2019-09-12 12:47 pm (UTC)Because, you know, one day you're quietly agreeing to share your child's birthdate instead of their age, and the next you're on a plantation, hoeing cotton.
By the way, I just read a graphic novel which, among other things, talks about the connection between home schooling and racism. The authors mother literally decided to home school her daughter because the author's MOTHER had unpleasant experiences during school integration.
No Ivy League by Hazel Newlevant.
"When 17-year-old Hazel Newlevant takes a summer job
clearing ivy from the forest in her home town of Portland, Oregon, her only expectation is to earn a little money.
Homeschooled, affluent, and sheltered,
Hazel soon finds her job working side by side with at-risk teens to be an initiation into a new world that she has no skill in navigating.
This uncomfortable and compelling memoir is an important story of a girl's awakening to the racial insularity of her life, the power of white privilege, and the
hidden story of segregation in Portland."
https://www.bookdepository.com/No-Ivy-League/9781549303050