Losing the Right to Homeschool In France: A True Story
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Tracy and Bernard Tourneur are fighting for their freedom to homeschool in France. They have been denied authorization to homeschool their son under a new law that was initially aimed at combating radical Islamism. It’s important for people in the United States and around the world to pay attention to homeschool freedom issues, as laws and policies in other countries can influence the homeschooling environment globally. Join Tracy and HSLDA’s Kevin Boden as we talk about how we can be diligent to protect the homeschooling freedoms that have been fought for on our own soil and learn how you can help.
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| 0:00.0 | Tracy Toner is an American living in France with her French husband Bernard and their nine-year-old son, |
| 0:05.7 | Emmanuel. Many of you who have listened to this show for a while will remember that Tracy and Bernard |
| 0:11.1 | are fighting for their freedom to homeschool in France. |
| 0:14.7 | Today, Tracy is joining me with Kevin Bowden, who is an attorney representing them from |
| 0:19.4 | HSLDA. |
| 0:20.3 | We're going to give you an update on their case and let you know how you can get involved |
| 0:24.3 | and help this family secure homeschool freedom in the nation of France. |
| 0:28.3 | This is Heidi St. John. |
| 0:29.3 | You found the Heidi St John podcast. |
| 0:30.9 | Stick around. |
| 0:31.5 | I think you're going to be encouraged. |
| 0:33.2 | Well, thank you guys for tuning in today. I want to jump right into this because I'm really honored to have both Tracy and Kevin Bowden from HSLDA on the show with me today. |
| 0:52.0 | Tracy, welcome. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm glad that you're here. |
| 0:54.2 | Thank you so much, Hardy. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm really happy to be here. |
| 0:57.6 | Well, I want to let everybody know kind of how this started. |
| 1:01.8 | So there will be some people who listening to this who haven't heard of you or your case yet. So take us back to the beginning, sort of how you ended up as an American living in France with a French national and you guys have a son obviously |
| 1:13.2 | Emmanuel that you're homeschooling tell us a little bit about your family how you |
| 1:16.9 | started homeschooling and what brought you to where you are today. |
| 1:20.8 | Okay well yes I am an American. |
| 1:23.6 | I met my husband, who is French. |
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