Amanda Weeden

New Hampshire Home Education Advocate and Leader

Friday, May 1st at 11:00 am

Friday’s Keynote speaker Amanda Weeden “School Choice: A Cautionary Tale from NH.”

Amanda is a home education advocate and leader in New Hampshire. She will join us to give us a breakdown of the disastrous results of taxpayer-subsized “Education Freedom Accounts” on the Home Education community. She will detail the inconsistencies or Republicans and Libertarians who support increased government intrusion into private education and share real life examples of the demolition of the free market, relationships and the grassroots community.

Amanda is a veteran Home Educator, Home Education Advocate and leader in the Home Education community in New Hampshire. She has always had a passion for serving others and it has found its way into many aspects of her life. For over 15 years, she has been immersed in the grassroots movement to build connections and protect the right to educate our children at home, free from as much government intrusion as possible. 

She is a founding member of Granite State Home Educators, the only nonprofit in New Hampshire dedicated solely to supporting families who choose the Home Education pathway. She is a long-time leader in Christian Home Educators of New Hampshire and Southern Maine (formerly SCHEA), a non-denominational Christian group with over 30 years of history providing resources and support for Christian Home Educators. From booksales to bowling leagues, Nerf wars to beach days, she enjoys planning and providing opportunities for Home Educators to make friends, save money and to powerfully reclaim childhood for our children.

As a fearless Home Education Advocate, she does info sessions on the law at libraries, is involved in legislative work and is a leader in the unrelenting fight for true educational freedom. She is a visible presence testifying at hearings, at school board meetings, and shows up regularly across various media outlets. Politics is her least favorite arena- but a necessary place to engage to hold the line against government overreach into our homes.

Amanda has been married for over 20 years, her husband works in the firearm industry. She is Mom to four amazing children ages 11-19. Her entry into advocacy began with one of her children who is fearfully and wonderfully made with a rare genetic difference and a long list of reasons why he’d be a failure in any other educational setting. Although she is a product of public school none of her kids have ever stepped foot in one except for craft fairs or church service and she intends to keep it that way. They rode in a bus once at a Touch-a-Truck and haven’t mentioned it since.

In her free time Amanda enjoys thrifting and crafting with her beautiful daughter and volunteering at a local nursing home. She helps to oversee Children’s Church at her home church, Grace Church of Dover, where she is well-known for her Banana Cake contribution to the refreshment table. 

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