Join Us!

Membership is open to all -- individuals and organizations -- who find themselves to be in agreement with our mission statement and whose views and definitions of homeschooling are consistent with our own as set forth on the "Welcome" page.

At CIH, we aren't too keen on committees and boards and meetings, and we don't have much patience with cumbersome bureaucratic-style decision-making. We've found that the fastest way to get things accomplished is to encourage and inspire people to step out on their own, individually or with their good friends, to address injustices, to solve problems, to challenge wrong-headed policies and to speak truth to power. Nobody needs our -- or anyone's -- permission to embark on strategies and actions and work aimed towards improving their own lives or the lives of others as homeschoolers. At the same time, communication is vital and central; we can't help one another if we can't share needs, challenges, passions, longings, and goals. There is no denying that visionary leadership can inspire all of us to work harder than we otherwise might; this means, if you want to lead homeschoolers in some way, we think you ought to lead. Let us know what you're doing and planning, and we'll help to spread the word and to connect you with others who will support and work with you. If you have a web site we'll add it to the Resources page.

If you'd like to join with us, click on the button below and let us know! We'll add you to our list of charter members which we'll publish here shortly.

CIH Mission Statement

The Coalition of Independent Homeschoolers is a nonhierarchical, grassroots network of independent homeschoolers, present, past, and future, dedicated to reclaiming homeschooling as the unique province of children and their parents, unshackled by the Divine Right of Experts. To this end we are committed to:

(1) Informing, inspiring, engaging and connecting individuals and organizations interested in working to preserve the rights of parents to homeschool, and the rights of their children to learn, free of invasive and burdensome oversight and regulation;

(2) Preserving a true and accurate historical record of the homeschooling movement from its earliest inceptions.