Posted on 04/17/2015 4:37:50 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
(WXYZ) - A new homeschool bill was introduced this morning after a young brother and sister were found dead in their mother's freezer last month.
If passed it would require every child being homeschooled to be registered with their school district. The schooling would be able to take place at any appropriate location.
"I believe this bill not only will have a part in monitoring children's education. ..in some cases, save lives," said Stephen Berry and Stoni Blair's grandfather John Blair.
John was standing with family members and state and local leaders outside of the Spirit of Detroit Statue at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Building in downtown Detroit on Friday morning.
"I believe this bill is the start of fixing things that have been needed in Michigan for years," said John Blair.
His daughter Mitchelle Blair is in jail on murder charges after Stephen and Stoni's bodies were found by an eviction officer March 24. They were there for two-years. She told people her kids were being homeschooled all that time.
"Michigan is one of only 11-states that does not require parents homeschooling their children to initiate to any contact with the state about the kids being homeschooled," said State Representative Stephanie Chang.
Chang is the author of the bill and, if passed, it would be named after Stephen and Stoni.
Parents or a guardian who choose to homeschool would have to provide their address and the names of their children being homeschooled to their school district.
There would also be two visits to the home every year from either a doctor, teacher or social worker.
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You need a license to be a parent...
Homeschooled children are already required to be registered with the local school district in the state where we did it, 15 years ago. I can’t imagine it’s not required everywhere, but perhaps it is so.
from home school to the grave....so to speak
BAN FREEZERS!!
They are using a moms murder of her kids as a means to get at homeschoolers.
Any means necessary.
“The child is not the mere creature of the State.”
— Supreme Court of the United States, Pierce v. Society of Sisters
Because government schools are sooooo safe!
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It’s the camel under the tent wall. Do not allow this. When you look into it, you can bet these people were already in the system and under some sort of suspicion. Michigan’s system works. You cannot make everyone change because some moron killed their kids.
Yep. Never let a crisis go to waste.
No longer 'home' schooling - but totally controlled by gov't.
Of course, I should consider that only home-schooled children are harmed by their parents. sarq
State and Federal gov't have long considered children as belonging the them - and the parents only allowed as "caregivers" to house and feed them. All other decisions are made by the gov't.
This cockamamie excuse to make home schooling illegal - again - is the bridge between -
Yep, chances are she would have killed her kids even if they were going to public school.
and this proposed law would do what to have saved these children’s lives?.......nothing......
So because two adults are unfit to be parents and should be sterilized, they’re pushing for a homeschooling bill? Communists are insane and will never be marginalized.
Which is why an ever increasing number of Detroit parents send their kids to one of the 60+ charter schools in Detroit with security being one of the reasons.
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