[Contacts] Special Homeschool Alert

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Dear Homeschool Friends,

This is a special email regarding homeschoolers in CA but if everything goes as is homeschoolers in CA won't be able to keep going as is and it may just make it where more states close to homeschooling including our own.

You can listen to today's broadcast between Dr. Dobson and Mike Farris right here <http://www.oneplace.com/Ministries/Focus_on_the_Family/> or on the radio, you can find the listing of stations at http://listen.family.org/findastation/.  This is very serious for homeschoolers in America so please take note of what they are asking us to do.  I have included the message from HSLDA and from Dr. Dobson.  Please pass this along to your homeschool friends.

Blessings,
Orilla Crider
MATCH Director
http://www.match-inc.org



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>From the HSLDA E-lert Service...
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Dear HSLDA Members and Friends:

In what could be one of the most important homeschooling related broadcasts in 25 years, James Dobson interviews HSLDA Chairman Michael Farris on the developing situation in California.

We encourage all homeschoolers to listen to this broadcast, and ask you to forward this information to anyone who is concerned about homeschool freedom, parental rights and the direction of our courts.

Broadcast: Focus on the Family daily radio broadcast with Dr. James Dobson.

Program Title: California's Threat to Homeschooling Families.

Airdate: Friday, March 7, 2008.

Since the broadcast is aired on stations across the country at different times, please visit ---- http://listen.family.org/findastation/  and search for "Daily Focus on the Family Broadcast" to find the station that covers your area.

You can help stop this threat to homeschooling by signing an online petition to depublish the Court of Appeal opinion at 
http://hslda.org/elink.asp?ID=4831

Sincerely,

Ian Slatter
Director of Media Relations



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  Dr. Dobson Outraged by California Ruling Banning Home Schooling

 

by Jennifer Mesko, managing editor

Focus chairman calls it an 'all-out assault on the family.'

A state appeals court has decided California parents without teaching 
credentials do not have a right to home-school their children.

The 2nd District Court of Appeals ruling could affect up to 200,000 
home-schooled students in the state.

"The court is guilty of an imperious assault on the rights of parents," 
said Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family 
<http://www.focusonthefamily.com/press/pressreleases/A000001094.cfm>. 
"How dare these judges have the audacity to label tens of thousands of 
parents criminals --- the equivalent to drug dealers or pickpockets --- 
because they want to raise and educate their children according to their 
deeply held values?

"The case before them involved one couple --- the ruling should have 
been confined to that one couple, not used to punish an entire class of 
people, the vast majority of them religious conservatives."

According to the Home School Legal Defense Association, California is 
set to become the only state to deny the vast majority of home schooling 
parents their fundamental right to teach their children at home. The 
group will file an amicus brief in the case.

Dr. Dobson said Focus on the Family will do whatever it can to get the 
ruling overturned and to restore the basic rights of parents in 
California to determine how their children are educated.

"This is an all-out assault on the family, and it must be met with a 
concerted effort to defend parents and their children," he said. "We 
will team with key allies and use every means at our disposal to make 
sure that not just every Californian, but every American, is aware of 
this miscarriage of justice. We will encourage them, by the hundreds of 
thousands, to make their voices heard on this matter.

"And we're hopeful that, in the end, common sense and legal sanity will 
prevail."

Dr. Dobson will discuss the ruling on his Friday radio broadcast.

Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said 
the court's timing is horrible.

"This takes away recourse from thousands of parents in California who 
want to escape the government-enforced indoctrination in public 
schools," she said. "The Legislature recently passed a law that 
basically ensures that students get a one-sided, positive portrayal of 
homosexuality and same-sex 'marriage.' "

*TAKE ACTION*
We are asking concerned citizens across America to sign a petition 
<http://www.hslda.org> asking the state Supreme Court to "depublish" the 
case, which means to apply the case to the family involved --- not to 
all California families.

*LISTEN TO THE BROADCAST*
Dr. Dobson will discuss the California ruling on his Friday radio 
broadcast. Find a station or listen online 
<http://listen.family.org/daily/A000000927.cfm>.

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