Homeschool Capitol Day is Tuesday

In a speech delivered a couple of weeks ago at Hillsdale College, Micheal Flaherty, the president of Walden Media, observed:

At the end of C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy assume their rightful thrones as Kings and Queens of Narnia. Lewis dedicates only one sentence to describing how they governed during the Golden Age of Narnia, but it is interesting to hear his summary of their most important accomplishments. Lewis tells us that they “made good laws and kept the peace and saved good trees from being cut down and liberated young dwarfs and young satyrs from being sent to school and generally stopped busybodies and interferers and encouraged ordinary people who wanted to live and let live.”

It is interesting to note that the first item of business after keeping the peace and protecting the environment was abolishing school! Narnia is thus the first kingdom where home-schooling is not only encouraged, it is required! But I think Lewis was talking less about the institution of school and more about what was being taught there.

Homeschooling is not exactly encouraged in Oklahoma, but neither is it forbidden. And every year homeschoolers from across the state gather at the state capitol building to interact with legislators, encouraging them to continue to safeguard our parental rights. This year's Capitol Day is Tuesday, February 20, and I have the privilege of moderating the legislative impact session. Here's hoping for a big turnout.

My four homeschoolers are pictured above.