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| Date: From: Subject: | 12/9/2005 11:56:59 AM Home School Legal Defense Association HSLDA - Unite in Defending Homeschool Freedom |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== HSLDA - Unite in Defending Homeschool Freedom Dear ##ToName##, As the New Year approaches, it brings with it the renewed challenge of protecting your family's freedom. In state capitols and in Washington, lawmakers will gather to consider new legislation that could profoundly affect your ability to choose what's best for your children and their education. Making sure elected officials preserve your right to homeschool requires vigilance and resolve -- and sometimes calls for a degree of action that's hard to provide on your own. Fortunately, you don't have to go it alone. By becoming a member of the Home School Legal Defense Association, you'll receive invaluable help in tracking the activities of lawmakers in your state and in Washington. Through emails and updates on our website, we'll alert you to legislation that requires your attention, and direct you to the officials who can make a difference in the proposed law's final outcome. Best of all, we can help you join your voice with other homeschoolers and like-minded citizens, presenting a united front in the effort to preserve educational liberties. As an HSLDA member, you'll be part of an effective organization that has helped homeschoolers secure many legislative victories. A few of the successes we helped gain in 2005 include: > The defeat of Montana Senate Bill 291 which would have introduced major restrictions on homeschooling in the state. A rally of about 1,200 people at the capitol helped persuade lawmakers to table the bill which represented the greatest threat ever to homeschool freedom in Montana. > The defeat of Florida House Bill 1115, which would have increased state control over homeschoolers by raising the compulsory attendance age from 16 to 18. > Persuading Texas lawmakers to amend Senate Bill 6. The change reduced the danger of it becoming a criminal offense for someone to withhold their child from a social worker. If this provision had stood it could have been used against HSLDA attorneys and parents who desire to keep their children from being interviewed alone by social workers during an investigation motivated by an anonymous tip. > Persuading lawmakers to pass House Joint Resolution 6, which declares that marriage in the state of Texas "shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman." The amendment will now be presented to the people of Texas for a vote in an election in November. But joining HSLDA provides you so much more than just legislative news. As a member, you'll have online access to forms and other documents you'll need in order to comply with regulations for homeschooling in your state, as well as valuable discounts on products and services you can really use. Don't forget legal services. Our members cite this as their primary reason for joining HSLDA. They can sleep peacefully at night, knowing that HSLDA will be there if their homeschool freedoms are ever threatened. And it does happen -- we handled 4,019 public school and social worker contacts between June 2004 and June 2005, even in so-called "safe states." So if you've thought about becoming an HSLDA member, don't put it off. Join today, and stay on top of what your lawmakers plan to do regarding homeschooling in 2006. Application http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=2720 More information http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=2723 Sincerely, J. 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