HEArts is a Wilmington, NC based online newsgroup available for use by homeschoolers. Our group is for families interested in using creative, integrated techniques to facilitate learning at home. We are a fully inclusive homeschool newsgroup that embraces diversity. Members belong to several local play groups and plan park play dates, fieldtrips, parties, workshops and spontaneous activities. See Sheree Harrell Draper on facebook or email moderator for more information.

This is a restricted Yahoo group. If you want to join our online news group you will need to email the moderator directly at nanny_on_call@yahoo.com to introduce yourself with your name, address and phone number(s) in order to keep up with any of our fun, spontaneous activities and planned events. Your information will be kept confidential. Parents and children of all ages, both boys and girls, are invited to attend events planned by our members, unless noted otherwise.

"Let early education be a sort of amusement, you will then better be able to find out the natural bent of the child." -Plato

"Accept the children with reverence, educate them with love, send them forth in freedom." -Rudolf Steiner

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."-Albert Einstein


For more information about your legal rights to homeschool your child see http://homeschoolingislegal.info/, http://www.nheld.com and http://www.homeedmag.com/HEM/216/tch.html . For information about homeschooling in NC, see http://www.ncdnpe.org and follow the "requirements." NCDNPE's "recommendations" are not mandatory.

Because of our uncompromised position on liberty to homeschool, HEArts does not endorse extra-legal or "volunteer" requests from any state or federal governmental agency although each homeschool parent is expected to make their own informed decisions regarding such requests.