Homeschool Politics

Welcome to the stage one in the development of the Federal Dept of Homeschooling

HR 1815 was presented to the President on January 3, 2006.

Many in the home education community followed the bill when we learned that the military section of HR 3735, The Homeschool Non Discrimination Act (HONDA) had been slipped into the bill on November 15th. Many called to object to this addition, but there were only days to act and we are told there simply weren’t enough calls received. In response to homeschoolers objections to section 522, an H$LDA representative was quoted at the time as saying: “IF we fail in our effort to get section 522 signed into law, we’ll try something else, but we won’t give up. It’s been seven years already; it may be seven more years before we feel like homeschool grads have a level path to military service.”

The original section that we objected to that pertains to home educators can now be found in Sec. 591 and will become law.

Part of it reads:

"the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe a single set of criteria to be used by the Armed Forces in determining whether an individual is a graduate of home schooling."

source: http://www.homeedmag.com/blogs/groupnews/?p=48