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It was a beautiful day for Homeschool Day at the Capitol! Thank you to everyone who came out to attend the workshop & celebrate homeschooling freedom at the rally, to the legislators that stopped by to say hello, to our amazing speaker Zan Tyler, to SC’s Club America, to Five Points Chic-fil-A for lunch deliveries, & to HDATC sponsor BJU Press Homeschool. With the help of homeschooling families, homeschool information folders were delivered to every legislator prompting great conversations. We’re already looking forward to next year!🏛️

New SCHEA Website!!
www.SCHEA.net

- State House tours: (am) 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30. (pm) 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30. (40 people ea.)
- Governor’s Mansion tours: 10:30 am & 11:00 am (50 people ea.)
- Chick-fil-A orders: see link in bio

South Carolina's Homeschool Day at the Capitol this Thursday, March 26, 2026, could be one of the most important field trips your family takes this year! Please join us as we meet and greet legislators who love seeing happy families who are positive and passionate about the homeschooling message.

Threats to homeschooling happen! In 1985, South Carolina experienced its first all-out threat to home education when the State Department of Education promulgated regulations requiring homeschooling parents to have a college degree and to use only state-approved texts and curriculum. This effectively outlawed the use of faith-based curriculum and resources. Later legislation included state-mandated testing for homeschooled students in public schools, as well as 4½ hours per day of instruction. Those burdensome requirements were not entirely mitigated until 1992.

During the past year, and in this current legislative session, we have watched homeschool freedoms come under more scrutiny than we have seen in years. And already, with the voucher/"unbundling" bill, the State Department of Education is requesting that those homeschool children’s test scores be turned over to the State in an eerily similar way to those early onerous and burdensome requirements in the 1980s.

Homeschool Day at the Capitol is our chance to make our voices heard and let elected officials know that we care about homeschool freedom.

Come join us at the South Carolina Home Educators Association (SCHEA) Homeschool Day at the Capitol Freedom Rally! Meet your representatives and senators. These are your elected officials who are here in Columbia representing you.

Don't let the legislative process be intimidating. Bring your family and your homeschooling friends to learn more about how South Carolina's government works.

- 9 am: "Know the Process: How Homeschoolers Engage Legislators and Shape Laws" by Zan Tyler
(Room 108 in the Blatt Bldg.)

- State House Tours
(sign up at the SCHEA table on the south side steps of the Capitol)

- 12 pm: Homeschool Freedom Rally featuring Zan Tyler's "Ten Lessons I Learned on the Way to Jail: Empowering You and Your Kids to Stand for Freedom"
(South Side Capitol Steps)

- Governor's Mansion Tours at 10:30am and 11:00am
(sign up on the south side steps of the Capitol)

- Sit in the gallery, deliver one of our homeschooling informational packets to your legislators, and meet your representatives and senators.

See South Carolina Home Educators Association (SCHEA) on Instagram and Facebook for maps and more information, including ordering lunch from Chick-fil-A.

This year, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, it is worth remembering that the cost of freedom has never been cheap. As Thomas Jefferson is attributed with saying, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."

If you would like to have a Chic-fil-A box meal delivered to Homeschool Day at the Capitol around 11:30am, place your meal order by midnight on Wednesday, Mar. 25th. There are 2 options:

1. CFA Sandwich, waffle chips, & cookie discounted to $12.30 each (includes tax & delivery)

2. 5 nuggets, waffle chips, & apple sauce $10.60 (with tax and delivery)
Free water bottles will be provided by SCHEA. Place your order here & be sure to provide your NAME:
https://cash.app/$JBennett1906
Link in bio. Thank you, Five Forks Chic-fil-A (fellow homeschooling family💛)!

Parking map showing possible parking locations around the South Carolina State Capitol for Homeschool Day at the Capitol. 🅿️

Meet us at 1️⃣7️⃣ on the State House south side steps for Homeschool Day at the Capitol! Sign up for tours (tours enter at the blue star), grab your badge, attend the Homeschool Freedom Rally at noon, & find your legislators office #. Attend “Know the Process: How Homeschoolers Engage Legislators & Shape Laws” at 9am in Room 108 in the Blatt Building (on map). See you there! Info for Governor’s Mansion tours at 10:30 &11:00 sign up coming.

🇺🇸Homeschool Freedom Rally at noon!🇺🇸 Governor’s Mansion tours are at 10:30 am & 11:00 am (50 people per tour). Sign ups coming soon.

SC’s TeenPact Leadership School is happening this week! Comment below if you are going!

TeenPact South Carolina At TeenPact South Carolina, students learn how to embrace their call as the next generation of leaders as they develop the skills to impact those around them. You are never too young to be a leader–will you answer the call?

Join us for Homeschool Day at the Capitol!🏛️South Carolina Home Educators Association (SCHEA) was founded in 1987 to encourage & support SC homeschooling families & to protect the freedom to homeschool.🇺🇸

Some are celebrating National School Choice Week, but that branding is a bit disingenuous. Americans have already enjoyed CHOICE in education for decades. What's really on the table and sweeping the nation now is GOVERNMENT FUNDING of private education options.

It's critical to understand that government funding and government monitoring and government regulation are precisely what make public education PUBLIC EDUCATION. So what happens when private schools and homeschools receive government funding, monitoring, and regulation? They become a form of public education. They cease to be truly private.

And this is exactly how some proponents of so-called "school choice" would like things to go. See former US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's argument that ALL LEARNING no matter where it takes place ought to be seen as PUBLIC EDUCATION. So why not fund it? Why not monitor it? Why not control it? Parents can "choose," but government will control.

See how quickly the illusion of choice disappears?

“Let’s stop and rethink the definition of public education. Today it is often defined as one type of school funded by taxpayers, controlled by government. But, if every student is part of the public, then every way and every place the student learns is ultimately of benefit to the public. That should be the new definition of public education.”

Source: https://www.youtube.com/live/-nv7KguMfag?si=-xA6nNukf0RhqLW_&t=1262