Last issue’s cover story, “How a haircut, a heron, and a used bookstore saved this article,” explained how HSLDA attorneys help thousands of families each year in big and small ways, and why, if an HSLDA didn’t exist, we’d need to invent one. Many of these stories never get reported, sometimes because they are too sensitive at the time.
For this issue, as we celebrate HSLDA’s 40th anniversary, the editors asked me to clear out the cobwebs of my memory and tell a previously untold tale of one of my early cases as an example of how I personally came to understand HSLDA’s vital role in the homeschooling ecosystem.
(The following is from memory. Facts compressed for flow and clarity. Quotes are substantially correct as best as I can recall, recast for storytelling quality.)