“The Twelve Tribes sect, founded in Tennessee in the 1970s, boasts 2,000 to 3,000 members and has faced child abuse complaints and the removal of their children in the past. In Germany, they have run up against both the country’s ban on spanking and its ban on homeschooling… Last week Germany authorities removed the children.”
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“Together, we are making a difference. We are changing lives. Today I am excited to announce that Homeschoolers Anonymous is expanding to become a non-profit organization called HARO — Homeschool Alumni Reaching Out. To this end, our goal is to raise $100,000 over the next 60 days. “
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“Almost a decade before Michael Farris tried to bully and threaten Queer PHC with a frivolous lawsuit because he didn’t like what they were doing, Farris also threatened a Christian homeschool kid with civil and criminal action — even going so far as to invoke the FBI.”
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“If we all bravely commit to telling our own stories and listening to other people’s stories, we might together be able to find the next steps in human progress. Whatever our past, there’s something in each of our life stories that can make the world a better place if we speak it and collaboratively explore what it is we have to tell.”
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Laid out at the 2009 Men’s Leadership Summit was a vision that entails a fundamental redefinition of how our society thinks about child abuse. That fundamental redefinition would have extraordinary ramifications for all children in this country.
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On April 17, Love Joy Feminism’s Libby Anne — a former homeschool student, former attendee of Patrick Henry College’s summer camp on Constitutional Law taught by Michael Farris, and now-parent of two children; also, one of HA’s blog partners — began a five-part series on HSLDA and child abuse.
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“If HSLDA’s behavior in abuse cases ends up becoming synonymous in people’s minds with homeschooling, then any parent who decides to homeschool is going to be considered suspect. The best way to protect homeschooling is to stop covering for abuse and to make it clear that it will not be tolerated.”
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“We would like to share 25 reasons for signing our petition that were publicly posted on our petition’s page by signees. They come from all over, from California to Germany. They are former homeschoolers, former employees and members of HSLDA, and homeschooling parents. These voices are growing by the day.”
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It is time to stand together — within and without the homeschooling community — and demand that HSLDA, the public face of American homeschooling, launches a public awareness campaign to fight abuse within our communities. Together, we can make homeschooling better.
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