They are the attorneys who step up to defeat School Boards, government social workers, and even state governments when the government wrongfully attacks homeschoolers.
HSLDA also leads efforts to defeat bad legislation put forth by anti-homeschooling leftists.
If we had a gun rights group that was as effective as HSLDA is for homeschooling we'd have nationwide, license free, constitutional concealed and open carry.
Absolutely.
We joined HSLDA before sending in our letter of intent. We lived in NY at the time and it was not a homeschool friendly state, although it did vary quite a bit by district.
We were on good terms with the superintendent because they knew that we were actually homeschooling the kids and it showed.