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Provide a practical, usable service to the local home school community.
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Provide an easily accessible avenue for examination of curricula and related items of interest.
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Provide informative speakers on a broad spectrum of home schooling issues and related areas of home life.
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And ultimately, edify the body of Christ!
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This years home school camp was a huge success.
We look forward to next year's camp which will be September 24th-27th, 2009. More information will be coming soon.
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Thank you and God Bless to all the Leadership, Volunteers, Speakers, Exhibitors, and Attendees that made the 2008 Valley Home Educators Convention a wonderful success! It simply could not be done without you.
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OT Studios is now selling workshop recordings in CD and MP3 formats from the VHE convention that took place July 25th and July 26th. If you did not attend or have questions about purchases you can contact them directly at 1.800.808.8173 OR visit www.otstudios.com
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Keep Praying for the California Case
On Monday, June 23, 2008, HSLDA founder Mike Farris argued in defense of homeschooling in the California Court of Appeal in the now-infamous Rachel L. case. In February, this same court had ruled that homeschooling is illegal in California. The court later vacated its own decision in response to a request for rehearing filed by attorney for the father, Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation, with substantial assistance by Farris and other attorneys at HSLDA. Farris argued as a friend of the court on behalf of HSLDA's 15,000 member families in California, as well as Focus on the Family, and Private and Home Educators of California.
Farris was joined in his defense of homeschooling by lawyers representing the Attorney General and Governor of California, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, California's three largest homeschooling groups (California Homeschool Network, Homeschool Association of California and Christian Home Educators of California), Pacific Justice Institute on behalf of Sunland Christian School, and Alliance Defense Fund lawyer Jeff Shafer, on behalf of the family.
"The weight of legal and scholarly authority presented to this court in defense of homeschooling is unprecedented",said Farris, who has argued dozens of similar cases since founding HSLDA 25 years ago.
In addition to those who presented oral argument, friend-of-the-court briefs in support of the right of parents to homeschool were submitted by Pacific Legal Foundation, National Legal Foundation, Sutherland Institute, Liberty Counsel on behalf of 13 members of Congress, Gifted Homeschoolers Forum, et al, Seventh Day Adventist Church State Council, Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence (prepared by noted law professors David Llewellyn, John Eastman, and Erwin Chemerinsky), American Center for Law and Justice and The Western Center for Law and Policy.
Farris is guardedly optimistic that the three-judge panel will not repeat its earlier error, but he covets your prayers. „The homeschooling movement has been successful not because of the work of lawyers but because the Lord has blessed it, noted Farris. „We must always remember Proverbs 21:1"The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever he wishes.‚"
A decision is expected within a few weeks.
From www.HSLDA.com
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