NEW MEXICO
Phone Calls Kill H.B. 337
In February, Home School Legal Defense Association sent out a legislative alert to it's members in New Mexico regarding House Bill 337, introduced by Barbara Casey of Rosewell. The proposed legislation would have amended the home school law by striking the requirement that home school teachers have a high school diploma and replacing it with the requirement that home schooled students receive "instruction in a manner that is substantially comparable to that required … for students in public school." Had this language been adopted, it would have opened up the potential for home schools to be regulated by public schools.
Phil Schultz, President of New Mexico Christian Home Educators, informed HSLDA that H.B. 337 did not get out of committee because the co-sponsors received enough telephone calls to cause them to withdraw their support.
Home School Legal Defense Association members who responded to our alert are to be congratulated: your time and effort were well invested. Telephone calls do make a difference.
There is a very good possibility, however, that this legislation will be introduced again next year, and we will have to go through the process once more. Should another telephone blitz be necessary, we trust that home schooling families will have the same faithfulness to respond, to make the telephone calls, to participate in democracy, and to protect their freedom and their families.
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