From Daily Kos ~Advice for the Democrtic Party

My fundie sister 2x Bush voter told me today.
by Repentant Republican
We have to be extra careful not to scare these possible new converts away. The Democratic party should embrace three points to win them over.

• Make all extra curricular activities available to home schooled and private school children. This is a no brainer. Most school districts already do this. Let's just make a big deal out of it to let them know we care about their children being eligible to play sports, choir, band, chess or whatever their parents want them into. They are already paying the taxes for it, now let's make sure their children get to do it also.
• Allow after school religious studies on public land for any recognized religious group. No one is forcing anyone to attend and the people who lead such studies would be volunteers. It already is happening (ala FCA and etc.) We just need to make a bigger deal out of supporting it.
• Gun rights. This issue is a non starter. While most Americans support "gun control," the NRA Bubbas vote in droves on this single issue. By coming up with a "gun owners compact," we can assure even the most hardcore Cletus that his guns will be safe if even Alan Alda were elected as president.

Wouldn't it be nice IF people could get it through their thick heads that ALL homeschoolers are not Fundamentalist Christians. Personally I don't like the idea of homeschooling being part of either parties platform.

From HEM

Read these two excellent post by Larry & Susan Kaseman at HEM.

Convincing Others We Don't Want Homeschooling Legislation - Larry and Susan Kaseman, have some excellent ideas for safe guarding our homeschooling freedoms. They will even allow you to use their ideas in a brochure, spelling out why homeschoolers do not want homeschooling legislation.

Larry and Susan Kaseman ask Does Homeschooling Have To Be Political?

Homeschooling is perceived as a threat by The most powerful interest groups in our society: the educational establishment. That's conventional schools, teachers unions, textbook publishers, educational software people. Now that's a giant you don't want to upset. Really, we didn't mean to waken it. We just wanted to quietly homeschool our kids, just follow our principles and beliefs and let other people follow theirs. Isn't America the land of the free? Shouldn't we be able to do this? But upset the giant we did, big time!

If we are not vigilant the giant will swallow us hole, this post explains why every homeschooler has to be politically active.