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| Date: From: Subject: | 11/28/2005 4:00:38 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Indiana--Ask WISH 8 to Correct Inaccuracies about Homeschooling! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Indiana--Ask WISH 8 to Correct Inaccuracies about Homeschooling! Channel 8, WISH-TV, is running a preview on its website that contains many inaccuracies about homeschooling in Indiana. The program itself airs at 6 PM tonight, and may contain even more inaccuracies. Homeschoolers need to step up and insist that WISH broadcast only correct information. ACTION REQUESTED Please call WISH at 317-931-2222 (the news hotline). 1. Ask the station to correct the inaccuracies in the preview of its New Teacher program (see list below). 2. Ask the station to have the full program reviewed by a lawyer experienced in homeschool law to reduce the chance that inaccurate or misleading information will be broadcast across the state. BACKGROUND The preview on WISH's website http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?s=4173004 contains these inaccurate and misleading statements: 1. "Thousands of children are not in school today . . . " the website says. Under State v. Peterman, a homeschool is a private school. Homeschooled children are in school. It is inaccurate to say they are not. 2. The website says, "Unlike public and private school teachers, homeschool teachers get to play by different rules." Because a homeschool is a private school under Indiana law, homeschool teachers are subject to the same rules as other teachers in non-accredited private schools. It is inaccurate to say that homeschool teachers are subject to different rules than all other teachers. 3. "[P]arents or others who homeschool children do not have to turn anything in" to the Department of Education, the website says. This is only partially accurate. If the state superintendent of public instruction makes the request, any non-accredited private school--including a homeschool--must provide enrollment and attendance records. 4. The website says misleadingly, "Essentially it's a matter of good faith." In fact, parents who homeschool are required by law to provide instruction "equivalent to that given in public schools." It's not JUST a matter of good faith: it's a matter of obeying the law. Sincerely, Scott Woodruff HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Is customer service an art or a science? No one can be everywhere at once. And you can't be at home, teaching your children, while monitoring your state's legislature. Through electronic legislative services, HSLDA is monitoring state legislation for you-watching and listening carefully for any proposed laws that could erode your right to homeschool. Join HSLDA today-we'll watch out for your future. 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