Well, anyone who home schools has certainly heard of the awful scene going on there right now with regards to stripping parents of the right to educate their children.  I pray with all my heart that this will be overturned.  ***If you have any interest at all in this case, I urge you to sign the petition against the CA ruling that makes home schooling illegal in that state!  Please visit www.hslda.org  You do NOT have to be home schooling to sign!***

Meanwhile it has really gotten me to thinking about home school freedom in general.  I live in a state that really doesn't require too much, and for the most part doesn't interfere.  But as we are praying for our house to sell so we can move on to a camp somewhere, I am putting much more stock into the "where" of that move.  I know the Lord always has our best in mind, but I do pray that He would lead us to a state where we can continue to home school with the freedoms we have now, or more.  It frightens me to think of a state taking away my right to "train up my child!"  I shudder to think of the road we are headed down as a nation if "she" gets into office next November and rallies her "village" around the children of the U.S....  God help us all.

The Home School Legal Defense Association web site (www.hslda.org) has a color-coded map of the U.S., indicating the overall requirements of each state in regards to home schooling.  It does vary state to state, but there are definitely some with far stricter requirements than others!  I'm currently in an "orange" state, but I've got my eye on all the "green" states for our move!! 

The CA case is so important to me, because all it would take is one state, one case like this, to start a deadly ball rolling.  We MUST fight for our freedoms, our God-given rights and responsibilities as Christian parents.