Florida Goes After Homeschoolers by Offering Money in Return for Government Oversight

Florida legislators have introduced a new bill that could become a blueprint nationwide for how States deal with parents who choose to educate their children at home, opting out of the system. Since many families struggle financially to have one spouse stay out of the workforce to educate their children, Florida is introducing a bill that will give funding to these families. But that then opens the door to let the Government into your home and have a say on how you educate your children.  As Alex Newman, who himself lives in Florida, reports, this is NOT a good idea, and homeschool families and organizations should absolutely oppose this bill, and any others like it that pop up in other states.

Hispanic Families in California Who Value Their Children are Making Sacrifices to Homeschool Them

When I first got married and welcomed into this world our first child, a baby born with Down Syndrome, I was not a rich man by any standards. I had just lost my primary job, and was taking support from my local church as I began training for a new job when our first child was born. I was counseled that we qualified for Social Security supplemental benefits because we had a Down Syndrome baby, and so we followed the recommendations of the "health professionals" and started availing ourselves of government services for therapy with our new Down Syndrome child. But it wasn't long before I realized that whatever government services were being offered to help my family, that I could provide myself much better within the context of our family, and so we stopped receiving any government aid, and began providing the same services, only better, without their help. That mindset continued when we welcomed our second and third children into the world, and decided to home educate them without help from the government. It wasn't easy, especially on a single parent income as we struggled in those early days, but the blessings that followed, including career blessings, as I look back now, were far beyond anything the government could have ever supplied us.  We home educated all three our children all the way through high school, including a "special needs" child. I would do it all over again. And I would do anything to try and convince every other family starting out, to do the same thing, no matter what the obstacles seem to be in making that decision. When you put your family and the needs of your family into the hands of God and ask him to meet your needs, rather than relying on the government, you will receive incredible blessings, more than you ever imagined. Here is a very nice article written by Joel Kilpatrick of The Conejo Guardian, a private publication in Ventura County of Southern California, about how many Hispanics are starting to make the same decisions about the benefits of home educating their children in California, rather than putting them into the public schools.  This story takes place in Oxnard, home to many Hispanic agricultural laborers in California. Mr. Kilpatrick has given a voice to the voiceless and suppressed throughout the COVID scam, interviewing nurses and others who have spoken out against the abuse of the medical system and the "vaccine" mandates.

The Next Mandatory Vaccine Battleground: Homeschool Children

As we have frequently reported here at Health Impact News, legislative efforts are underway in many states to remove parental choice for childhood vaccines, with new proposed bills removing religious and philosophical exemptions to childhood vaccines which are mandated as a requirement for school attendance. In general, the public is opposed to removing parental consent to vaccines, and most bills seeking to remove parental authority have been met with stiff opposition and been defeated at the state level. One bill that was successful, was SB277 which was passed in California in 2015 removing the religious and philosophical exemptions to vaccines. Today, the only option parents in California have to get an exemption to vaccines as a requirement for school attendance, is to get their doctor to sign a medical exemption. However, the pro-pharmaceutical lobby in California has not been satisfied with the results of SB277, and are now going after doctors who write medical exemptions for vaccines. Most doctors in California now fear writing medical exemptions to vaccines as they would risk losing their license to practice medicine in California. Parents who now want to protect their children from the dangers of the CDC vaccine schedule, either by refusing certain vaccines or following a different vaccine schedule, are left with almost no options. As a result, many parents are choosing to homeschool their children to escape the mandatory vaccine mandates. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that the vaccine extremists, who believe that ALL vaccines are safe for ALL children ALL the time, by force if necessary, are now targeting homeschool children. Several states are proposing new laws that would require homeschool families to allow government-represented medical professionals to come into their homes to approve them as home schools, including checking the children's medical records to ensure they are following the CDC vaccine schedule.

Parents Get $800K Over Warrantless Search and Removal of Homeschool Kids Who Were Not Vaccinated

KPCC reported this week that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will pay $800,000 to the parents of two children taken from their home by a Sheriff’s deputy and social workers with the Department of Children and Family Services, who did not obtain a warrant first. According to KPCC, the lawsuit states that the complaint used by DCFS centered around what the homeschooled family chose to feed their children, and for failing to vaccinate them: Social workers with the Department of Children and Family Services claimed the parents “created a detrimental and endangering home environment” for the children by failing to provide nourishing food and immunizations. The lawsuit describes the deputy mocking the parents for not immunizing their children based on religious beliefs and homeschooling them. It accuses him of coercing the parents into a search of their hotel room. “You could lose your kids forever,” he allegedly threatened.

Judge: Case of Seized Newborn From Mother Who Questioned Vaccine May Now Proceed

Health Impact News Editor Comments: Last year we covered this story as reported by Michael Farris, chairman of the Homeschool Legal Defense Fund (HSLDA). […]