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Home School Heroes.


Home School Heroes

Christopher Klicka

B&H Publishing Group

127 Ninth Avenue, North, Nashville, TN 37234

0805426000 $14.99

Written by Christopher Klicka, a senior counsel of the Home School Legal Defense Association The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is a United States-based "nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. , Home School Heroes: The Struggle & Triumph of Home Schooling home schooling, the practice of teaching children in the home as an alternative to attending public or private elementary or high school. In most cases, one or both of the children's parents serve as the teachers.  in America is the true story of mothers and fathers who braved powerful legal opposition against the practice of homeschooling home·school or home-school  
v. home·schooled, home·school·ing, home·schools

v.tr.
To instruct (a pupil, for example) in an educational program outside of established schools, especially in the home.
, particularly in the 1980's and 90's. Klicka presents numerous true stories of his work for the Home School Legal Defense Association in which he intervened to prevent social workers or police from entering homes without a warrant or interviewing young children without a court order, or worse, taking children away from their loving parents. A devout Christian as well as a legal defense counsel, Klicka also speaks of the strength and comfort provided by God and Jesus Christ Jesus Christ: see Jesus.

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40 days after Resurrection, ascended into heaven. [N.T.: Acts 1:1–11]

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kind to the poor, forgiving to the sinful. [N.T.
 in the most dire hours of need. Home School Heroes recounts milestones of progress reached for the right to homeschool home·school or home-school  
v. home·schooled, home·school·ing, home·schools

v.tr.
To instruct (a pupil, for example) in an educational program outside of established schools, especially in the home.
, offers practical advice concerning what to do if state agencies attempt to interfere with the legal right to homeschool a child, and is strongly recommended for any parents seeking to pass on a religious, homeschooled education in their children.
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