Welcome to THEA's annual Rally Day! Come join us and  be involved in activities all throughout the day. You don't want to miss anything! We'll be in four rooms in our State Capitol and four rooms in the Cordell Hull office building, plus your visit to your Senator and your member of the House of Representatives will be most memorable.

Historically, since 1985 THEA's Capitol Hill Rally & Reception Day, Rally Day, is the vehicle THEA has used to present the good news about home education to the Legislators of Tennessee.  It is THEA’s signature legislative event.

The event is simple in a certain sense. Homeschooling families come to Nashville, our state capital, to meet the two legislators who represent you, your State Senator and your member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.  Every person in Tennessee has one State Senator and one House of Representatives member.

THEA encourages every home school family to attend Rally Day so our legislators see that we want them to know what we are doing and so that when they vote on legislation, they will be thinking about you, your family, and your children, whom they represent.

Homeschooling families have used their freedom to educate their children well. According to the National Home Education Research Institute, www.nheri.org "The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests." 

The Tennessee Home Education Association leadership and membership has watched this track record of success since the beginning of the modern homeschooling movement in the early 1980's. THEA is passionately active in advocating to protect, defend, preserve, and expand homeschooling freedoms in the Great State of Tennessee. THEA promotes expansion of our freedoms with our state legislature so families can home school with greater freedoms. 

Thank you for working hard to develop a wise, peaceful, healthy family.  Come join us once a year for Rally Day to meet the two people who represent you in your State of Tennessee government, plus you’ll meet a lot of other freedom-loving, homeschooling people, too.

Will began his legal career working for HSLDA in January 2004 as a legal assistant to HSLDA Senior Counsel Scott Woodruff. After graduating from Oak Brook College of Law and Government Policy with his Juris Doctor in 2006, he moved on to direct HSLDA’s Federal Relations department and serve as HSLDA’s federal lobbyist.

Will worked as a career federal employee in the Office for Civil Rights at the US Department of Health and Human Services from 2018 to 2021. In November of 2021, he resigned from the federal government and was selected by the Board of ParentalRights.org to serve as the first full-time president of ParentalRights.org and the Parental Rights Foundation.