Substituting The Government For The Family: In First Set Back To Homeschooling In Decades, Connecticut Declares War

Harbingers Daily ^ | 06/06/2026 | Alex Newman

[Jan_Sobieski]

Connecticut officials just adopted the first major new restriction on homeschooling in America in decades, forcing parents to seek permission from “child welfare” authorities while imposing a slew of new regulations on families who exit government schools. Advocates for home education blasted the move. And they vowed to fight on.

The legislation, known as House Bill 5468 and signed into law as Public Act 26-37 or “An Act Concerning the Provision of Parent-Managed Learning,” treats all homeschool families as guilty until proven innocent, critics said. Before starting to homeschool, parents must report to the government and receive approval from the Department of Children and Families to proceed.

The unprecedented measure also purports to force parents to provide government-approved “education.” Language ordering homeschoolers to have “equivalent instruction” to government’s was removed. But the final bill signed into law by Governor Ned Lamont last week still decrees that parents must follow the studies taught in government schools.

The bill was so controversial that all Republicans and even some Democrats voted against it. But even with no GOP support, the legislation was approved by the House in a 96 to 53 vote and 22 to 14 by the Senate. Thousands of concerned citizens spoke out and testified against the bill, while just a handful expressed support…

[Albion Wilde]

ping!

[nathanbedford]

My complaint is not with the Constitution but with Joe biden’s practice of flooding the nation with those
whose worldview is repugnant to the Constitution

[metmom]

HOMESCHOOL PING

This ping list is for articles of interest to homeschoolers. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping List. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added or removed from either list, or both.

The keyword for the FREE REPUBLIC HOMESCHOOLERS’ FORUM is frhf.

They want your kids.

[FreedomPoster]

Christianity isn’t a totalitarian political system.

Islam is.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

But homeschooling by Muslims that indoctrinates sharia into the minds of children of tender age poses a threat to our constitutional democracy.

That is the most UN-American thing I have read on Free Republic in years. Do you plan to take these children away from their Muslim parents and put them into Atheistic foster care so their parents can't "indoctrinate" them at home, or just force them into government schools so their communist teachers can try to turn them into full Jihadists? The real joke behind your idiotic comment is that the "child welfare authorities" in Connecticut will no doubt do everything in their power to promote the most grievous Islamic madrassa welfare fraud, while persecuting the most tame Christian homeschoolers. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, but you clearly aren't smart enough to understand how putrid your position is.

[nathanbedford]

For two decades here, I have consistently defended everything I say to the last breath, but I have no intention of indulging hysterical allegations like yours that have nothing to do with what I said.

[Oberon]

The right to homeschool isn’t limited to just Christians. Where did you get that idea?

[nathanbedford]

See #26.