Category: Digging for Courage

Minnesota has had access to extracurriculars for homeschoolers since 1998.

https://texas-homeschool-coalition.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/public_pdf/2025PublicMainPDF/States-with-Homeschool-UIL-Access-Tebow-List-for-UIL.pdf

This year, and last, homeschoolers have had to challenge legislators to preserve the rights of parents to home educate as they see fit.

https://mailchi.mp/7f81d0c9a44b/machelegislativeupdate-6522236?e=96b8960125

https://hslda.org/post/minnesota-senate-file-1740

On top of recent attempts to expand regulations, Minnesota already has restrictions that are not welcome in Delaware.

https://hslda.org/legal/minnesota

These are some of the reasons I oppose any legislation that doesn’t reduce the current regulations.

The availabilty of books in our society is beautiful (libraries, local, regional, and national bookshops, Target, Walmart, big box stores, grocery stores, thrift shops, Little Free Libraries, Facebook Marketplace, garage sales, borrowing from friends, antique stores, random take-a-book-leave-a-book bins, drug stores, campgrounds, newsstands, churches, community centers, etc…) Each of these places is different, but they share a common limiting factor: space. What books end up on these various shelves is decided in as many ways as there are places. But choices must be made.

Only one of those places is accused of “banning” books. It is misdirection. It is a ploy to divide us over a problem that is a symptom of a diseased system.

As long as we trust government to educate our children and decide what they read, we will remain victims of those who run that government.