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| Date: From: Subject: | 8/3/2004 9:30:01 AM Home School Legal Defense Association Illinois--New Mental Health Law: Potential Risk to Homeschoolers |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== August 3, 2004 Illinois--New Mental Health Law: Potential Risk to Homeschoolers Dear HSLDA members and friends: Recently HB 2900 was passed by the Illinois legislature and signed by the Governor. The bill consolidates mental health programs and treatments in the state of Illinois. The bill will not affect homeschool families, however. The only requirement is that there needs to be "uniform protocols for implementing screening and assessment of children prior to any admission to an in-patient hospital for psychiatric services." Therefore this new law does not require children to automatically obtain a mental health assessment. It only requires children who are in families who are seeking medical help for their child's mental health problems. However, children who are in public schools may still feel the impact of this new law because it will require the Illinois State Board of Education to "develop and implement a plan to incorporate social and emotional development standards as part of the Illinois Learning Standards for the purpose of enhancing and measuring children's school readiness and ability to achieve academic success." We believe, at HSLDA, that this only applies to children who will be attending or are attending public school pre-school programs. This is not applicable to private schools, according to the language of HB 2900. Nonetheless, we will be watching carefully the implementation of this bill to ensure that there is no attempt to go beyond the new law and mandate that all children follow these "social and emotional developmental standards." We believe that the lesson from this bill is, once again, that sending children to public school will open your family to these types of problems and limit your parental rights and controls over the training of your children. Sincerely, Chris Klicka HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Can you call your attorney at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning? Our members can get in touch with their attorney even after business hours, when they have a legal emergency. Wouldn't you like this level of protection? More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1100 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. Box 3000 Purcellville, Virginia 20134 Phone: (540) 338-5600 Fax: (540) 338-2733 Email: info@hslda.org Web: http://www.hslda.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- How To Subscribe: - Subscribe to the HSLDA E-lert Service at our website: https://secure.hslda.org/hslda/elert/account.asp?Process=Subscribe - Or send an email with name and complete mailing address to: subscribe@hslda.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscription Information: - You subscribed to the HSLDA E-lert Service as: {{Email}} - To unsubscribe from the HSLDA E-lert Service send an email from the email address you want to unsubscribe to: unsubscribe@hslda.org - To change your email address or make other changes to your subscription, visit the HSLDA E-lert Service account web page at: https://secure.hslda.org/hslda/elert/account.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTMASTERS: This message is being sent to the most recent address we have for our subscribers. If this is an invalid email address or you have other problems, please reply to webmaster@hslda.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: This is considered a private and confidential message from HSLDA to its bonafide HSLDA E-lert Service subscribers. HSLDA cannot attest to the authenticity of copies posted, forwarded, or sent by any party other than HSLDA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Please do not reply or otherwise use this email address; hslda@hslda.org is for broadcast purposes only and is not intended to receive incoming messages. We cannot reply to any email sent to this address. If you have comments or questions, please send email to info@hslda.org or call HSLDA at 540-338-5600. HSLDA members can also email staff directly through the Members website at http://members.hslda.org/contact.asp. Thank you for your cooperation. ====================================================================== | |
