Today's Topic: Are Florida school districts overstepping their legal boundaries with arbitrary deadlines? From Counties blocking "Letter of Intent" submissions to enforcing unauthorized annual evaluation windows, well-intentioned school board staff are frequently infringing on parental rights.In this video, we dive deep into the Florida Education Code as an advocate for parental rights. We break down exactly what the law says, how districts are violating Florida Statutes, and how these arbitrary "blackout windows" are actively jeopardizing families trying to clear their status for the Step Up For Students (SUFS) Personalized Education Program (PEP) or FES-UA scholarships before critical state deadlines.Every Monday at Noon, join Brenda Dickinson, a veteran lobbyist for parent-directed education, Jason Crawford, the new voice for homeschool freedom, and Crystal Crawford, connecting the homeschool community, for a lively discussion on all things homeschooling in Florida.Get informed, inspired, and connected! We welcome your questions and participation. Together, let's protect and promote educational freedom for Florida's homeschool families.Please support HEF to protect Florida Parents' Home Education Rights.www.flhef.orgFollow us on Facebook, Instagram, X:@flhef1985JOIN OUR DISCORD!https://discord.gg/BH2zJcBQgC

TODAY'S TOPIC: Florida is rank WHAT in Education?! Well, depends on who you ask...and what they're really talking about. Everyone's trying to sell something, and making their pitch to do it...and YOUR KIDS are their leverage in the conversation.

Candidates for Governor, School Boards, State Representatives, Senators, etc. Everyone has a statistic, a claim, a platform, and a cause...But what REALLY MATTERS?!

Priority 1: YOU are the Parent.

Priority 2: The Duty to Educate is YOURS.

Everything comes back to these. Don't get lost in the noise of who's wearing what color jersey, or who said who would be a good candidate, or who endorsed who...get them narrowed down to your values and priorities.

Every Monday at Noon, join Brenda Dickinson, a veteran lobbyist for parent-directed education, Jason Crawford, the new voice for homeschool freedom, and Crystal Crawford, connecting the homeschool community, for a lively discussion on all things homeschooling in Florida.

Get informed, inspired, and connected! We welcome your questions and participation. Together, let's protect and promote educational freedom for Florida's homeschool families.

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Today's Topic: Interview with Mr D from Mr D Math. We discuss everything from the Testimony to the Human Spirit, to the challenges in public education and how curiosity is killed, but also how some of those same challenges face the homeschool community, especially those parents who feel overwhelmed and stuck with a specific system or approach, and how every parent and student can take the reins back on the learning process. How they can embrace the Freedom that comes from being a critical thinking, and how to start on that journey. Every Monday at Noon, join Brenda Dickinson, a veteran lobbyist for parent-directed education, Jason Crawford, the new voice for homeschool freedom, and Crystal Crawford, connecting the homeschool community, for a lively discussion on all things homeschooling in Florida.Get informed, inspired, and connected! We welcome your questions and participation. Together, let's protect and promote educational freedom for Florida's homeschool families.Please support HEF to protect Florida Parents' Home Education Rights.www.flhef.orgFollow us on Facebook, Instagram, X:@flhef1985JOIN OUR DISCORD!https://discord.gg/BH2zJcBQgC

This segment is a part of what went missing form the Full episode 142 when a power outage hit during the live broadcast.:

I was sitting nearby and watching my kids participate when I overheard a conversation of a dad with someone else. He was complaining that it's only been a week and already he can't wait for the kids to go back. "We have to find summer camps quick. I don't think we can have them home all the time."Sad, and yet EXACTLY what's wrong with our society and our public education system. Fathers, YOU lead your house. If your child is becoming the kind of person you can't stand to be around. That's on you. If a business owner complains about employees without doing anything to address his complaints about his own company. It's no one's fault but his. Steer and Lead better. Don't know how? That's not an excuse it's an observation. Now set to addressing it. Learn, Adapt, Build better. You OWE it to the ones you're leading to be the leader they can follow. This, "It's only been a week and I can't wait to send him back." statement says more about your, your lack of leadership skills, your lack of patience, your lack of understanding, and your lack of execution than it does about the child. The child is a child. It's your duty to raise your boy to be a man, your daughters to be women, and your children to be adults. It seems parents don't want to be parents, and those who do...are being bullied by the system, frivolous lawsuits, and just downright adult bullying.The real issue is that parents like this want their daycare. I'm just gonna say it. So many parents want to get on with THEIR life and ignore their kids while they hope the system will raise them, and if you take away their daycare they just don't know what they'll do. Even amid the school choice movement - many come out of a system COMPLETELY UNWILLING to shoulder the responsibility of taking charge and walking in their freedoms... not ready to raise their own children....they're just looking for a new daycare program. We need our Home Education Community to embrace these new parents, but to also get REAL with each other. If you look at Connecticut, Homeschooling is facing attacks disguised as "oversight and protection for children"We are in need of a massive awakening of parents everywhere to realize that YOU ARE THE PARENT. The children are yours to raise, and THE WORLD IS YOUR CLASSROOM. Please support HEF to protect Florida Parents' Home Education Rights. www.flhef.orgFollow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter:@flhef1985

Today's Topic: We discuss the Tagline for the Home Education Foundation on our Website - OUR CLASSROOM IS THE WORLD. and a recent news article in which the 17 year old student makes that very statement. We wish we knew her! But we definitely echo her voice.

Parents: You are the Parent. The kids are YOURS. The WORLD is your classroom.

Every Monday at Noon, join Brenda Dickinson, a veteran lobbyist for parent-directed education, Jason Crawford, the new voice for homeschool freedom, and Crystal Crawford, connecting the homeschool community, for a lively discussion on all things homeschooling in Florida.Get informed, inspired, and connected! We welcome your questions and participation. Together, let's protect and promote educational freedom for Florida's homeschool families.Please support HEF to protect Florida Parents' Home Education Rights.

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Today's Topic: Memorial Day and FPEA was Amazing!Every Monday at Noon, join Brenda Dickinson, a veteran lobbyist for parent-directed education, Jason Crawford, the new voice for homeschool freedom, and Crystal Crawford, connecting the homeschool community, for a lively discussion on all things homeschooling in Florida.Get informed, inspired, and connected! We welcome your questions and participation. Together, let's protect and promote educational freedom for Florida's homeschool families.Please support HEF to protect Florida Parents' Home Education Rights.www.flhef.orgFollow us on Facebook, Instagram, X:@flhef1985JOIN OUR DISCORD!https://discord.gg/BH2zJcBQgC

Today's Topic: Interview SUFS: Are Scholarships REALLY destroying public schools?

- How many people are REALLY spending the scholarship money on theme parks and paddle boards? - What's overwhelming majority of purchase data show the scholarship is being spent on?- Are Public Schools able to be participants and vendors to the scholarship recipients? - Is the School Choice Scholarship and the Educational Landscape looking bad for public schools?

- Are the scholarships the reason for decline in public school enrollment?- Are parents really able to by Video Game Consoles?- Did you ever play Oregon Trail at school?- Who should be the one to decide what's best for their child's educational opportunities?Every Monday at Noon, join Brenda Dickinson, a veteran lobbyist for parent-directed education, Jason Crawford, the new voice for homeschool freedom, and Crystal Crawford, connecting the homeschool community, for a lively discussion on all things homeschooling in Florida.Get informed, inspired, and connected! We welcome your questions and participation. Together, let's protect and promote educational freedom for Florida's homeschool families.Sources for Video: District enrollment data: https://edudata.fldoe.org/ERD report on enrollments: https://edr.state.fl.us/Content/presentations/education/ProcessOverview_EducationEstimatingConference.pdfDESIGN CONTEST:https://www.flhef.org/challenge2026Please support HEF to protect Florida Parents' Home Education Rights. www.flhef.orgFollow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter:@flhef1985

Today's Topic: FEA Launches FRIVILOUS lawsuit to attack the state, but really, they're misquoted the Florida Constitution, and they've attacked PARENTS because they don't like that parents are choosing to take their children and invest in other learning opportunities - with and WITHOUT scholarship. Every Monday at Noon, join Brenda Dickinson, a veteran lobbyist for parent-directed education, Jason Crawford, the new voice for homeschool freedom, and Crystal Crawford, connecting the homeschool community, for a lively discussion on all things homeschooling in Florida.Get informed, inspired, and connected! We welcome your questions and participation. Together, let's protect and promote educational freedom for Florida's homeschool families.Please support HEF to protect Florida Parents' Home Education Rights.www.flhef.orgFollow us on Facebook, Instagram, X:@flhef1985JOIN OUR DISCORD!https://discord.gg/BH2zJcBQgC

Today's Topic: Can I do it? Should I just quit homeschooling? Questions asked and answered by Brenda Dickinson the GOAT and LEGEND of home education in Florida, and Tracy from FPEA , an mother and parent educator who opens up about her own questions and struggles and how she worked through them.

"Life is a struggle... and adventure at the same time. The job of the parent in learning isn't to get all the facts right. It's to keep the curiosity alive so the struggle stays an adventure."

Every Monday at Noon, join Brenda Dickinson, a veteran lobbyist for parent-directed education, Jason Crawford, the new voice for homeschool freedom, and Crystal Crawford, connecting the homeschool community, for a lively discussion on all things homeschooling in Florida.Get informed, inspired, and connected! We welcome your questions and participation. Together, let's protect and promote educational freedom for Florida's homeschool families.

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