Our Mission:
LEARN Home Education Network facilitates an accessible, collaborative, and affordable community with inclusive secular (non-religious) opportunities for home educating families in the Greater Kansas City area.
Our Vision:
A collaborative community where secular homeschoolers can connect, find meaningful support, and cultivate lasting relationships within an inclusive ecosystem. We empower families with the resources, guidance, and refuge they need to pursue their educational journey with confidence and joy.
LEARN’s Values:
LEARN is a secular (non religious) homeschool community whose unifying purpose is to support and encourage each other on our homeschool journey.
We value the diverse identities of our members and families.
We are committed to creating and nurturing an inclusive, diverse, and affirming homeschool community for every student and family, regardless of nation of origin, race, immigration status, religious affiliation (all faith/non-faith belief systems), disability status, or LGBTQIA+ identity.
We value community, connection, and belonging.
We encourage our community through affirming actions, language and service.
We value service to community.
We consider service the foundation of our LEARN community. Each member’s volunteer contributions are essential to build our community.
We strive to be anti-racist.
We acknowledge that racism can be unconscious or unintentional, and that identifying racism as an issue does not automatically mean those involved in the act are racist or intend the negative impact. As an anti-racism organization we vow to purposefully identify, discuss, and challenge issues of racism and their impacts on our organization, its systems, and its people.
We hold the expectation that all participants in LEARN will fully affirm the gender and sexual identities of our LGBTQIA+ members.
We strive to be anti-homo/bi/transphobic and to use affirming language around gender identity, such as always using persons’ preferred pronouns. We know mistakes might be made unintentionally, but we will purposefully call in opportunities for education.
We value accountability to self and to community.
We challenge ourselves and each other to understand and correct any inequities we may discover and gain a better understanding of ourselves during this purposeful process. Should a member experience inequity that cannot be resolved through discussion, we encourage reporting to the LEARN board or to a LEARN Community Ambassador.
Nondiscrimination Policy
LEARN does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, irreligion/religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, marital status, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, selection of volunteers and vendors and provision of services. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all participants in LEARN.
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