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| Date: From: Subject: | 5/22/2007 4:46:11 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Nevada: Call to Stop the Expansion of State Control over Your Children |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== May 22, 2007 Nevada: Call to Stop the Expansion of State Control over Your Children Dear Nevada HSLDA members and friends: S.B. 312 would increase state control over your children by expanding the compulsory school attendance age from 17 to 18 years. This means that all homeschoolers would be subject to the homeschool statute requirements for an additional year. This bill has already passed the Senate, as well as the Assembly Committee on Education. It could face a vote on the Assembly floor at any time. We need your calls to stop this dangerous legislation! REQUESTED ACTION Please call your assemblyman and give this message: "Please vote against S.B. 312. Please oppose any effort to raise the age of compulsory school attendance. It only serves as a waste of taxpayers' money; it would force unwilling, disruptive students into the classroom." You do not need to identify that you homeschool. To find contact information for your assemblyman, use our Legislative Toolbox by clicking here: http://capwiz.com/hslda/state/main/?state=NV&view=myofficials Reasons For Opposing Lower Compulsory Attendance Age: > Raising the compulsory attendance age from 17 to 18 would subject home educators to the requirements of the homeschool statute one year later than now required. (You do not need to share this reason with your legislators.) > Raising the compulsory attendance age will not reduce the dropout rate. In fact, the two states with the highest high school completion rates, Maryland at 94.5% and North Dakota at 94.7%, compel attendance only to age 16. The state with the lowest completion rate (Oregon: 75.4%) compels attendance to age 18. (Figures are for three-year averages, 1996 through 1998.) > Twenty-nine states only require attendance to age 16. Older children unwilling to learn can cause classroom disruptions and even violence, making learning harder for their classmates who truly want to learn. > It would restrict parents' freedom to decide if their 17-year-old is ready for college or the workforce. (Some 17-year-olds who are not academically inclined benefit more from valuable work experience than from being forced to sit in a classroom. > Another significant impact of expanding the compulsory attendance age would be an inevitable tax increase to pay for more classroom space and teachers to accommodate the additional students compelled to attend public schools. When California raised the upper age limit of compulsory attendance, unwilling students were so disruptive that new schools had to be built just to handle them and their behavior problems, all at the expense of the taxpayer. For more information on compulsory attendance, please see our memorandum at http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/Issues/E/Early_Education.asp Thanks for taking the time to call or email! Sincerely, Christopher J. Klicka HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Is customer service an art or a science? For us, good customer service is both an art and a science -it should appeal to our members and be effective. Consider what our members say about us: The freedom HSLDA allows me to have as I homeschool is wonderful! They handle the law and I get to dedicate the time to my daughter. - National City, CA HSLDA members since 1993, our membership is just as important to us as our children's curriculum. 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