Posted on 03/28/2008 12:26:24 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
From HSLDA -- Action Requested: 1) Attend the House Education Committee hearing on S.B. 337, which will be held on Wednesday, April 2, at 10:30 a.m., in Legislative Office Building 207. CheNH and other pro-homeschooling representatives will be attending the hearing as well. When you arrive, please sign up to oppose the bill. Signing in does not obligate you to testify; however, if you would like to testify, you may. A talking points memo will be distributed in the next few days to assist you in preparing for your testimony.
2) Call or email the members of the House Education Committee, and, in your own words, give them the following message:
“S.B. 337 adds back in a requirement for homeschoolers that was taken out two years ago in H.B. 406. There is no evidence indicating that this section is needed. The current law ensures that the state’s interest in education is met, whereas the proposed changes create unnecessary burdens on homeschooling families and participating agencies.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hslda.org ...
Heads up NH Homeschoolers -- please see the HSLDA article for contact information of state reps. Call yours today!
Home School activists needed!
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Sounds like the statists are making their move on a lot of different fronts. They need to be defeated badly and everywhere.
You are right. Just a couple of years ago we were able to amend the law to reduce the paperwork required from home schooling parents. Now we're facing an amendment to the law which puts back the requirement to file a curriculum - even though the current law doesn't allow the state or local school board to refuse to allow a parent to home school based on it -- and, more even more ominously the new law requires you to notify the state or local school board before you start home schooling, instead of afterwards as it is today. No doubt the next step will be a requirement for some "approval" based on the notice and the filed curriculum.
The opponents of freedom never give up, neither can we.
Hopefully our State Representatives will realize this and vote this bill down - in committee or on the floor.
That would be the “Live Free or Die” state?
I notice that not one politico on the committee has an R by his name. They are all D’s.
Yes, we are trying to live up to our state motto, striving for freedom in small ways, unlike the great efforts of General Stark who, in a toast to his fellow Revolutionary War veterans from the Battle of Bennington originally wrote:
“Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.”
Apparently few of our current State Senators understand what General Stark did.
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