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Posted on 06/06/2002 9:00:59 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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It's a good post, though.
U.S. FEDERAL LEGISLATION
(Primary Source: HSLDA’s National Center for Home Education - NCHE)
Federal Legislation Exempts Homesehoolers - HR. 1 (now Public Law 107-110), the big funding package for elementary and secondary education, expands federal government support and control over public education in America with a record budget amount and a provision taking us a step closer to federal control of a national test. This will inescapably push America toward a federally controlled and manipulated public school curriculum. Teachers will have to teach to the test in order to qualify their schools for the federal funds (that means public schools).
Behind the scenes, the Bush administration informed conservatives that Bush would get his bill through with or without their support, as he intended to get liberal Democratic support for the bill. This is exactly what happened. For example, Senator Kennedy, who worked with Bush on this bill, was photographed with a big smile over the victory of HR 1 and received a personal commendation in Bush's state of the union address.
We are grateful that HSLDA's National Center for Home Education persuaded Congress to add an amendment to HR I that prohibits any state from mandating home schoolers to take their state assessments, Chris Klicka, Senior Counsel of HSLDA, reported that ~ state legislatures or state departments of education are specifically prohibited from taking measures to impose mandatory state assessment testing on [private] home schoolers. Any attempt to require a [private] home schooler to be tested by a state assessment as designated in P.L. 107-110 will violate federal law and jeopardize their state's federal funding." Chris KIcka also stated Lhat this amendment has already been used to help defeat such legislation in Virginia. We strongly supported this critical amendment! We commend J. Michael Smith, Tom Washburne, Caleb Kershner, Chris Klicka and all the other wonderful staff of HSLDA/NCHB for the great work they did to get this critical amendment.
The amendment states, "Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect a home school (that means NOT MY KIDS), whether or not a home school is treated as a home school or a private school under state law, nor shall any student schooled at home be required to participate in any assessment referenced in this Act." [Part B, Subpart, Section 9506(b)].
[Editor: In California law, private homeschoolers operate as private schools. Homeschoolers enrolled in public school programs, including charter school or public school independent study, are public school students. It appears that only private homeschoolers are therefore protected by this new HR I amendment which is now law.]
Concluded Bills in the California State Legislature
SB 765 (Chesbro) would have required at-risk screening and intrusive home visitation of many newborns.
STATUS: Died. (We Strongly Opposed.) A very significant Victory!
AB 1095 (Wright) would have required all children to have an eye examination within 90 days of entering first grade.
STATUS: Died. (We Opposed.) A big Victory!
AB 463 (Vargas) would have established a home-based school readiness program for 3-5 year-olds.
STATUS: Died. (We Opposed.) A Victory!
AB 1326 (Mountjoy) would have prohibited public schools from promoting homosexuality.
STATUS: Died. (We Supported.)
AB 1354 (Pescetti) wo~d have added pneumococcus vaccination to the list of vaccinations required for school enrollment.
STATUS: Amended to address a different topic. A Victory!
The following homosexual legislation, all of which we opposed, died:
AB 1434 (Wayne);
AB 1338 (Koretz);
AB 799 (Shelley);
SB 143 (Murray);
AB 1722 (Alquist)
FAMILY PROTECTION EDUCATION **AB 1763
ACTION: Strongly OPPOSE Write your Assembly Member.
**AB 634 (Wesson) lowers the compulsory education age from 6 to 5 years. Requires parents to apply to public school officials for permission to not enroll their child in either a private or public kindergarten.
STATUS: In Senate Appropriations Committee
ACTION: Strongly OPPOSE Write your State Senator.
AB 182 (Vargas) adds hepatitis A vaccination to the list of vaccinations required for unconditional enrollment of a child in a public or private school. Parents continue to have the right to sign a waiver based on personal beliefs.
STATUS: In Senate Health & Human Services Committee
ACTION: We will monitor this bill to ensure the parental waiver of immunizations is not changed.
AB 2664 (Hollingsworth) would have introduced the term "home school" into California tax law. We are grateful that the author has amended this bill to remove references to "home school" while not changing the effect of the bill.
ACTION: No Action.
HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS LEGISLATION
The following bills promote the homosexual agenda:
AB 1649 (Goldberg); AB 1942 (Chu); SB 2028 (Vasconcellos)
ACTION: OPPOSE Write your State Senator and Assembly
I admire parents who homeschool their children. They have to sacrifice to do it.
Actually, this is already happening in Alaska, and elsewhere. Home-educating parents are offered a "free" computer and courseware, in exchange for accepting the "free" gifts from the beneficient hand of The State. After a year, the curriculum controls kick in, and certain "fundamentalist" materials are ruled out of order.
California also offers a statist "home school" program, complete with pre-designed curriculum and oh-so-helpful mentors/monitors to check the homework, and make sure little Johnny is learning the state-approved "party line." The Home School Legal Defense Fund refuses to accept for membership, or defend, anyone who is using one of these statist substitutes for true home education, the parent-directed kind.
Thanks, but you are too kind. Having the time to enjoy our own children is not a sacrifice. Watching their growth "in wisdom, and in stature, and in favor with God and men" is a privlege.
This article that Mrs. Schlafly wrote is true and it is great to see her write about it. It felt great to get that bill passed in 1985. The odds were greatly against the homeschoolers. We felt like David vs. Goliath. But at the final count, only five people voted against the homeschool bill in both houses of the legislature.
My favorite part is: There are many more worthless courses taught in public schools on which homeschoolers will not spend their precious time, such as courses in...evolution.
That sums it up, if any one subject or topic could. It symbolizes the very essence of what the left stands for (perfidy, junk science, Marxism) and the highest acheivement of what is avoided by homeschooling our children.
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Watching their growth "in wisdom, and in stature, and in favor with God and men" is a privlege.AMEN!
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