Share Your Support for Reform

Our Voices for Reform section is our way of promoting the thoughts and experiences of homeschool alumni and homeschooling parents who favor increased legal oversight of homeschooling. When making a submission for our Voices for Reform section, you may choose to use your full name, your first name and last initial, or a pseudonym. We respect your privacy. 

Your submission should:

• be roughly 1000 words long
• be written in the first person and should draw on your personal experience with homeschooling rather than any outside sources
• explain why you are in favor of homeschool oversight today
• discuss how increased legal oversight would have helped you or others you knew

While you may find it helpful to discuss or allude to the experiences of other homeschooled children or homeschooling parents in your community, you should reference these people without providing identifying details and while centering your own story and your personal journey.

Prompts for homeschool alumni:

• What quality of education did you and others in your homeschool community receive?
• How has the quality of your education affected you or others you know?
• If you or someone you knew knew experienced child abuse, did homeschooling play a role in concealing this abuse?
• What level of legal oversight existed in the state where you were homeschooled?
• Do you feel that more legal oversight would have improved your experience? If so, how?
• What convinced you to support increased legal oversight of homeschooling?

Prompts for homeschooling parents:

• What does/did your homeschooling look like? What quality of education do you see provided by other homeschool parents?
• What level of legal oversight existed in the state where you homeschool (or homeschooled)? How has this oversight affected you?
• How do you think increased or more effective legal oversight might affect your homeschooling and that of other homeschooling parents you know/knew?
• What convinced you to support increased legal oversight of homeschooling?

These prompts are designed to get you thinking; you do not have to respond to all of them.

To make a submission, please fill out our online form.