Washington Natural Learning Assoc.

What Does WNLA Do?

Washington Natural Learning Association has a goal to build a stronger home-education community to ensure a strong future for our children. With our statewide membership, we work to create better networking to make our lobbying and advocacy more effective. WNLA works to ensure our right to home-educate our children without cumbersome regulation. We work with families to help them with any questions and problems that may occur when home-educating. We strive to protect our home-education law by lobbying efforts and creating a positive image. We work with families to resolves any problems they may have with public school administration and regulation. WNLA will work toward a better law that will help secure education rights in the future. We acknowledge that our fundamental right to home-educate children is essential to our future.

The So Called Crisis in California

I'm sure many of you have received emails about the "California Homeschool Crisis" saying that homeschooling is going to be illegal in California and possibly the rest of the country, asking you to sign a peitition, and to join HSLDA. I would like to put a firm stop to this nonsense right now. California does not, and I repeat, does not have a home education law, it never has. California unlike Washington state does not have the home based instruction law to protect home educators from this very type of sitution. This is nothing more then a heinous attempts at scare mongering in order to further line the idealogical deep pockets of HSLDA and it's associated groups, nothing more or less. There is nothing true, factual, or valid in this kind of blatant propaganda. If the home school community wishes to be seem as legitimate, representatives of the community they would be better severed by completing their own homework not just their children's.

Civics lesson 101:

Laws are made by the legislature. The case in California may be unfortunate, however the judge ruled using a law that currently stood on the California books. Washington state has know such law, therefore this particular situation can not occur in Washington state.

A petition will not change any judicial decision, nor should it. One may petition elected representative that make law, which is sometimes effective to gain change. The Judiciary is responsible for ruling in accordance with the laws created by the elected representative of the people, better known as the legislature. The judge did not create law, the judge ruled on a existing law.

It is dismaying that so called political activists (representing homeschooling) have such little knowledge of how the three separate branches of government operate. I suggest those who are ignorant as to the workings of our governmental system purchase a middle school civics book and do a little studying.

California home education advocates have asked that out of state home educators step aside and let them handle the unfortunate situation that has taken place in California. Instead for stirring fear across the nation we should step back and let them handle their own state issues.