Attorney Mike Smith is the President of Home School Legal Defense Association, an organization that he helped found in 1983. Established to protect the right of parents to teach their children at home, HSLDA now represents more than 80,000 member families. Mike and his wife, Elizabeth, began homeschooling their children in 1981. His columns on home education appear regularly in the Washington Times, and he has been a guest on numerous television and radio programs.

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