Math: Place Value

Check out these videos on Math Place Value.

Join the community:

Like us on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/homeschoolnetcast

Follow us on twitter - http://www.twitter.com/hsnetcast

Subscribe to us on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/homeschoolnetcast

Homeschool Giveaway Hosted by Homeschool Netcast Network

Hey Homeschoolers! Enter to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card in our April 2011 homeschool giveaway.

Do you have an email address, a facebook account, and a twitter account? Well then, you could win a $50 Amazon gift card in our home school giveaway. If you could use some books or a neat gadget then you should enter our home-school giveaway for a chance to win.

Los Angeles Public Hearing on Daytime Curfews

Just received an E-Lert from HSLDA.
Los Angeles Public Hearing on Daytime Curfews
The hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on April 18, in Room 1010 of 
Los Angeles City Hall at 200 N. Spring St.

Related:

The Homeschooling Buzz - Daytime Curfews

Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)

Home School Legal Defense Association is a 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. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens of thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong voice when and where needed.

Click Here to visit HSLDA online.

Christian Home Educators Association of California (CHEA)

The Christian Home Educators Association of California, Inc. or CHEA is a non-profit ministry established in 1982 to provide information, support, and training to the home education community throughout the state.

Why Does Homeschool Netcast Network Recommend HSLDA

The Homeschool Netcast Network recommends HSLDA for the same reason CHEA recommends them. Before Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) was formed, a small core of tremendously dedicated lawyers largely volunteered their time to help homeschoolers, but these men could not continue to take the great volume of phone calls and the increased requests for help without it affecting their livelihood.

HSLDA lawyers have become specialists in home education arguments. They are the very best source of professional help anywhere. But in order to meet the rising demand for their services they need the financial backing of the home education community to continue.

There are others who offer legal defense across the country. However, they may not have the resources and expertise of HSLDA. HSLDA has a proven track record of successes. In choosing a legal defense organization, do not let cost be the only, or even a major, factor. It is important to join before you face a legal challenge since your membership is not retroactive.

As a member of HSLDA, the moment you have any communication from an official you can immediately turn it over to the HSLDA attorneys who take care of it. Courts and homeschooling cases go year round. Government officials can contact you anytime, even during the summer. It has happened.

Join HSLDA (www.hslda.org) now by visiting their website. In addition if you are a Christian and home schooling in California then I recommend that you also join CHEAofCA (www.cheaofca.org).  Remember Ecclesiastes 4:12 "Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not easily broken."

Why Do We Need a Homeschool Legal Defense Association?

Reprinted with permission from the CHEA of CA website.

With the number of legal contacts and cases in the early years of the modern homeschool movement, it became obvious that the formation of a legal defense association was necessary to spread the cost of legal defense among homeschoolers and make legal representation affordable for every home educator.

The legal arguments involved in an issue such as home education are so complicated that it would be impossible for a family to go into court not represented by an attorney. Good lawyers can cost hundreds of dollars per hour to retain. And, however good those attorneys might be, they may not be familiar with the issues surrounding home education.

Some parents feel that if they are not imminently threatened why spend money on association membership, but what happens to one in a very real sense affects all. If by apathy and financial support one family suffers a terrible loss, you can be sure it will be used again and again against other families. Likewise, if one family wins, it will be ammunition for all. These lawyers and these families in trouble must be supported.

When thinking about legal representation, whether by private attorney or legal association, consider the following criteria and be sure you know what you are getting.

1. What is their experience and knowledge of home education legal issues in California, and how long have they been involved with home education matters in California?
2. How many homeschool challenges and cases (both in court and outside of court) have they handled in California as well as nationwide?
3. Do all members have direct and quick access to an attorney available full time to talk to every member about any legal contact by school authorities or child protective services related to home education—from the beginning and until the contact or legal challenge is satisfactorily resolved?
4. What assurances do you have in writing that you personally will be represented and defended by an attorney from the beginning of any legal contacts based on your homeschooling?
5. Exactly what is covered and what is not? What do they pay for and what do you pay for?
6. Are the people handling all of your legal contacts attorneys? Many times non-attorneys handle the preliminary legal work and contacts. Non-lawyers may be ignored or not allowed to attend certain hearings, such as those in juvenile court. Attorneys are given far more access to and credence in our legal system than the non-attorney citizen, however capable the non-attorney might be.
7. Will the attorney talk with you and make phone calls or write letters to authorities on your behalf immediately after you have notified them that your homeschooling and parental rights have been challenged?
8. Will they always work to keep you out of court rather than waiting until a hearing or a court date has been set before an attorney takes direct action on your behalf?
9. Do they have statewide and national connections with attorneys committed to defend home educators and with expertise in this specialized area of law? If you move to another state, are you still covered?
10. Do they work cooperatively with homeschool organizations already operating within each state?
11. How much is their fee and how long is it good for? Attorney fees are by far the greatest expense. If an association, do they pay 100 percent of the attorney's fees?
12. What related services are available to you? Written guidelines for how you should respond to different kinds of legal contacts? Telephone consultation with an attorney?
13. On what grounds will you be defended? Will they defend your constitutional inalienable rights and religious (or other) convictions if you so choose? What compromises may be required of you now or later during a legal confrontation? Do they explain your legal options and let you decide which option to take?

If you are a Christian, also ask this question:

14. Is their philosophy (life, education, legal, family) consistent with yours? This is a "binding" or "yoking" relationship, i.e., decisions and behavior of one party automatically affect the welfare of the other party because of the contractual or covenant relationship. Membership becomes a contract of obligations on the part of both parties—the member and the legal defense fund or organization. (See II Cor 6:14, 15.)