THSC recently sent a letter to Waco CPS, assisting a family from THSC Association. This member family was in the process of adopting a special needs child. Even though the family had plans to home school once the adoption was final, CPS was requiring them to send this young girl to public school where the…
Child Protective Services (CPS)
Many times families who are adopting through CPS are forced to place the adoptive child or children in the public school system even if they intend to home school once the adoption is final. One of our member families found themselves in this exact situation with a special needs child they are in the process…
Tim Lambert writes a letter to Audrey Deckinga, Assistant Commissioner, Child Protective Services in Austin, Texas regarding a memo notifying all case workers that the practice of educating one’s children through home schooling is not considered child abuse or neglect.
Tim sent a letter to the TDFPS in regards to an email received by THSC in which a CPS investigator requested information on a homeschool family. Tim informed the investigator that as a CPS worker, he had no authority to investigate homeschool families with regard to enforcement of compulsory attendance laws, or to review their…
When a THSC member was coerced by CPS into signing forms that would allow their children to be academically tested and told they were required to follow a list of rules and restrictions, such as being a certified teacher among others, in order to homeschool, Tim Lambert wrote aletter to CPS officials, reminding them that…
