Talk:Home School Legal Defense Association

message: I noticed the first sentence of the article contained a direct quote from the HSLDA website, so I attempted to simplify and summarize it. The original sentence was as follows: "The [HSLDA] is a United States-based nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms." My summary: "The [HSLDA] is a United States-based organization that seeks to aid homeschooling families through legal representation." The quote seemed a bit cumbersome for a summary section. For full disclosure, I am a student editor and this was my attempt to make a meaningful edit in an article. --Sara Kathryn 04:07, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
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message: I removed the following section, entitled "Critisims":
Some say that the HSLDA's grassroots lobbying system consists of highly charged "e-lerts" that dictate position and action to recipients, often resulting in a barrage against legislators, which puts homeschoolers in a bad light. [4] The HSLDA is also critisized because it mixes causes and has an agenda well beyond the promotion of homeschooling. These other agendas include religion or divisive social issues like gay marriage.
Some also assert the HSLDA's policy positions are an attempt to restrict a child's access to open and varied media as to reproduce a politically and religiously hegemonic generation.
Since homeschooling laws are state specific some believe that statewide homeschool associations are most often the best source of information about homeschooling laws and are better suited to lobby their state legislatures.
Its main transgression is that it is unsourced. It is an egregious offender in Wikipedia's policy regarding the use of weasel words. If there are reliable sources criticizing the organization, fine, put it in and source it. But the section above is simply not acceptable in an encyclopedia. Aplomado talk 06:30, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As currently written, that section is almost certainly Original Research, in that it presents a narrative that the source material almost certainly did not intend to communicate. It's not really appropriate to construct "criticisms" from a subjects own web site, since they certainly aren't criticizing themselves. -- LWG talk 04:40, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
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