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Here’s a great comment (and some excellent advice) from Laura Derrick.

Excerpts (emphasis added):

It is inevitable that we will not all go about homeschooling the same way, and that we won’t have the same ideas about how to protect our right to homeschool. I think that’s a positive thing. We need diversity, and we need a wealth of ideas and strategies….

But you know, it’s not easy to sit by when someone else takes an approach you think is particularly unproductive, or maybe one you even think is counterproductive. It happens. We’ve all been there. I’ve come to the conclusion that it won’t ruin us unless we get stuck there and stop doing what it is that we know we’re good at. Not every strategy will turn out to be effective. Not every one will win friends. But intention is worth a lot, and I’m trying my best to accept the good intentions (for homeschooling, not necessarily for me) for what they are, to honor them, and move on….

There IS change. There will continue to be change. It doesn’t depend on people thinking like we do, or agreeing to work together, or joining a particular organization. Just do what you do best. Do it with your heart and soul and mind engaged. Try to be generous and patient enough to let others do it their way, even when it grates on you. Remember that this homeschooling life IS the art of the everyday, after all.