This list is an opportunity for homeschoolers to contact homeschooling attorneys and experts about homeschooling legal and litigation issues. It is an informal network of attorneys and legal experts that are concerned with litigation pending and threatened against homeschoolers. Its primary purpose is to exchange legal information within the profession, and to educate and support attorneys and experts involved in homeschool litigation. A referral list of attorneys and legal experts may be maintained. Since specific factual situations can change the legal advise given, logging on to the AHSA-USA list does not create an attorney-client relationship with AHSA-USA, any member of AHSA-USA, or any attorney responding to questions on this list, and AHSA-USA recommends that an attorney be consulted for legal advise pertaining to specific situations.
We offer private consultations for individual homeschoolers and homeschooling families, mostly by telephone but occasionally in person when possible. As always, Susannah and Pat can speak from the John Holt/Growing Without Schooling perspective and address most if not all of your homeschooling questions, whether you are in the early stages of considering whether to homeschool or have been homeschooling for years.
We offer curriculum design and support to families considering alternatives in education, not limited to homeschooling. We provide expert speakers for conferences or workshops. We design and execute radio and television commercials promoting homeschooling. We publish a free newspaper that goes to thousands of families. We provide services such as the Bookmobile Online that help homeschoolers find the books and materials they need at reduced prices. How can we serve you?
NHELD believes that most legal problems encountered by families who homeschool may be resolved without resorting to litigation or the adoption of new state or federal laws.
NHELD believes that attorneys living, working, and practicing law in your state are most informed about the nuances regarding your state’s homeschooling laws. However, NHELD also believes that these attorneys will be better able to protect your freedom to educate by networking with other attorneys and homeschool associations throughout the country in order to foster exchange of ideas, information, and strategy. That is why NHELD is establishing a network of attorneys and homeschool associations nationwide.
Our attorneys will be able to provide valuable assistance in cooperatively developing strategies and in negotiating solutions to your legal problems. You and your state’s attorneys will have access to and the benefit of legal advice from our nationwide network of attorneys whenever needed.
by Helen Hegener< br />"As long as all of the proper hoops are observed and leapt through, homeschooling parents can rattle around between laws and regulations and this is called freedom to educate our children. But many parents find these hoops altogether intolerable."
