Pg 112: Boston Tea Party and homeschooling
Homeschooling
During the 1984 hearings process on homeschooling, the Maine Dept. of Education learned that homeschoolers EXPECT to be consulted about any proposed changes to laws or regulations.
At the huge public hearing, I reminded the Commissioner’s representatives (and the other school officials) of a little New England history.
About 150 miles south of us, in a harbor in Boston, there was a party one night involving some tea.
That little Tea Party was about no taxation without representation -- it was about the consent of the governed. Homeschoolers are the governed in these proposed changes, so we expect government to seek our consent. We expect to have representation.
For the next six years, three others and I served as homeschool consultants to the Commissioners of Education on their appeals boards hearing homeschooling appeals.