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| Date: From: Subject: | 7/8/2005 1:18:46 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Colorado--Action Needed Now To Protect Parent Taught Driver's |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Colorado--Action Needed Now To Protect Parent Taught Driver's Education July 8, 2005 Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: For the last few years, parents have had the right to teach their children how to drive in the State of Colorado. It has been working with great success. However, the Department of Revenue has been planning changes by bureaucratic decree that will destroy parental choice in driver's education. An important public hearing is being held by the Department of Revenue on July 11. Wayne Tully of the National Driver Training Institute (NDTI) is leading the battle and will be testifying at the hearing. He is also requesting from you, letters to present to the Department showing the will of the people. The rules that are presently proposed will greatly limit parental choice. The Motor Vehicle Business Group (MVBG) holds the opinion that most parents are not fit to provide their teenagers with driving skills and therefore contend that parents need the assistance of state approved instructors. The proposed rules that will be considered on July 11 will require a teenager to have six hours of behind the wheel instruction with a state approved instructor in order to obtain the permit at 15 years old. If enacted, parents will have to pay between $300-500 for such services. Action Requested: 1. Please attend the hearing at the Department of Revenue on Monday, July 11, at 1:30 PM at 1881 Pierce Street, Room 110, Lakewood, Colorado, 80214 (Use West parking lot and Entrance B). 2. Write a short letter voicing your opinion concerning the importance of leaving parents with the choice to control their children's driving instruction 100%. By clicking the link below, you can sign a letter and send the NDTI your comments. The NDTI will print your responses and deliver them at the hearing on July 11. Please click here to take action: http://www.usdrivertraining.com/form/form.html Background: It has been demonstrated repeatedly by studies from George Mason University, Virginia; University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration; and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, among others, that parents often prepare their teenagers to be safer drivers than most professional instructors. Therefore, the proposed rules from the MVBG are a bad idea and will restrict parental choice in this vital area. Please take a moment to make your views known. Sincerely, Christopher J. Klicka, Esq. HSLDA Senior Counsel ====================================================================== 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: ##ToAddress## - 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. ====================================================================== | |
