Mississippi
Legislation Considered
Several bills affecting home schooling families in Mississippi have been defeated. House Bills 32 and 246, offered by Representative George Flaggs, Jr., were proposed to lower the compulsory attendance age from six to five but were promptly defeated in the House Committee on Education. Another bill which suffered the same fate—Senate Bill 2118, sponsored by Senator Alan Nunnelee—would have authorized home school students to dual enroll in public school to participate in academic and extracurricular activities.
A dangerous legislative proposal recently defeated by the House Committee on Education was Senate Bill 2609. Directed at children from birth to age five, this “Parents as Teachers” bill would have set up a pilot program whereby state social workers would go into families’ homes and give them instructions on how to raise their children according to the state’s standards. While participation in this pilot program would have been voluntary, such intrusive programs could have become mandatory in the future.
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Go, Mississippi
by
Houston Davis
“. . . Let cymbals crash and let bells ring, ‘cause here’s one song I’m proud to sing . . .”
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