Coalition For Responsible Home Education

Read more and sign on here: https://crhe.org/bill-of-rights/

For our newer audience - the US remains the only country that has not signed on to the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child. In a global conversation, our homeschooling practices and policies are falling behind.
Read the UNESCO report we contributed to here: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/homeschooling-through-human-rights-lens

Our page has been shared with several groups unfamiliar with our work, so we’d like to level set and remind visitors of our mission.

CRHE is a homeschool alumni founded and powered organization. We believe children have the right to a comprehensive education and a safe and supportive home environment, no matter where they are educated. Our lived experiences, as well as research, show that there are gaps in homeschool policy and practice that need to be addressed to ensure all children have access to an open future. CRHE advocates to state legislatures for minimal, reasonable oversight that protects the most vulnerable homeschooled children; those recommendations are rooted in our Homeschooling’s Invisible Children database (https://hic.crhe.org/).

We are supportive of public schooling, but our work is in the homeschool space. Pushing back on our advocacy, research and programming with “but what about public school?!” does not support safe, responsible homeschooling. Children’s safety is not an either/or, it’s a both/and. We won’t ignore the realities of abuse and neglect in the homeschooling space simply because there are more children enrolled in a different educational modality.

We value diverse perspectives, but do not tolerate abusive language. We especially do not tolerate speaking over, minimizing, or lashing out at survivors of trauma. We have limited the comments on posts where page visitors are not engaging with factual information, misrepresenting our work, and most importantly, refusing to center homeschool alumni and survivors.

You can reach out directly to our Executive Director at [email protected].

Today, Governor Lamont signed into law the first protections for homeschooled children in the state of Connecticut! This is a historic step towards responsible homeschooling, and we are grateful for the alumni advocacy that brought us here.

Read our press release here ->
https://crhe.org/connecticut-victory/

"One aspect that is difficult to measure is the degree to which children may be isolated and vulnerable to mistreatment at home. That is a focus of advocates for more home-schooling regulation, like the Coalition for Responsible Home Education, an American outfit where many staff were home-schooled themselves."

Interesting article from The Economist about the global homeschooling conversation - and where the US measures up.

Home-schooling is taking off In the wake of the covid-19 pandemic, more parents are teaching their children

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Elizabeth, our Information Manager, explores the tight link between mixed schooling and the phenomenon of singling out certain children for additional or worse abuse in this important research brief - https://tinyurl.com/SinglingOut

Nebraska Public Media talked to us about the huge steps their state took towards safety for homeschooled children with the passage of LB 1224 - read it here!

Nebraska becomes second state to delay moving public school students to homeschool if guardian is under investigation Lawmakers created a delay for parents pulling their students out of public school to homeschool while the parents are under an investigation.

Thank you, Connecticut legislators, for your support of responsible homeschooling💙

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