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| Date: From: Subject: | 9/6/2007 11:02:20 AM Home School Legal Defense Association California--Continued Support for Family Protection Ministries is Critical |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== California--Continued Support for Family Protection Ministries is Critical Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Home School Legal Defense Association has been partnering with Family Protection Ministries (FPM) for more than 20 years to advance and protect your freedom in California to teach your children at home. Roy Hanson, Jim Davis and Nathan Pierce of FPM are our eyes, ears, and action leaders in Sacramento. They monitor more than 6,000 bills each legislative session to make sure that your freedoms are protected--this is more than the number of bills that are introduced by our U.S. Congress. When FPM discovers a bill that would affect your freedoms, they consult with us in teamwork to determine an effective strategy before going into action to oppose dangerous legislation. FPM has also worked with HSLDA in monitoring and having professional contact with CASCWA (California Association of Child Welfare and Attendance), an organization primarily made up of California's "truant officers." Some members of this organization have been the state's most vocal opponents of private homeschooling. My experiences at CASCWA's annual conference this year confirmed that some of their members are still very vocal about taking legal action against homeschoolers. Additionally some of their members continue to call for legislation to regulate private homeschooling. One workshop attendee said this kind of legislation should be introduced, but that attempts in the past had been rejected because legislators were fearful of the well-organized homeschool advocacy groups and the homeschoolers who bombard the legislators with phone calls and letters. This is further evidence of the effectiveness of FPM and their teamwork with us. God has used Roy Hanson's and Jim Davis's skillful expertise and experience, along with their strategic legislative contacts, to equip them for this unique work of successfully eliminating harmful legislation. Consequently, due to their long hours of behind-the-scenes work, you have not had to be involved in every legislative battle to protect your freedom. Many homeschoolers are becoming complacent and apathetic in California and, as a result, the support for Family Protection Ministries is down. FPM needs to receive additional financial support to maintain the kind of manpower necessary to adequately protect our freedom. A.B. 755 is an example of the kind of legislation which Family Protection Ministries has successfully opposed just this year. A.B. 755 was introduced by Sally Lieber and would prohibit spanking with an object. This would be a major step toward her ultimate goal to criminalize all spanking in California. As a result of the hard work of FPM, in teamwork with HSLDA, and your participation by making phone calls as requested, this bill has been put on hold for this year. However, this bill and others like it will continue to come up in California. Following are examples of other dangerous legislation, which were defeated when FPM successfully led the battles against them on your behalf: > They stopped, on more than one occasion, attempts to regulate or criminalize private homeschooling. > They led the defeat of a state daytime curfew, which would have required homeschoolers to be under the same hours for schooling as public schools. > They stopped an effort to make truancy a form of educational neglect, which would have involved investigations by the Department of Social Services and Juvenile Court intervention with the possibility of loss of children over truancy. > They stopped efforts by the Legislature to require screening of parents and intrusive home visitations of every newborn in California. > They have stopped attempts to lower the compulsory attendance age from 6 to 5 and are currently fighting a new attempt. God has also used FPM in getting some positive legislation passed. For example, they worked in conjunction with us at HSLDA to get the Legislature to pass a law requiring social workers to inform parents of the allegations against them at the initial contact of every investigation of child abuse or neglect. None of the above victories would have occurred without the strong support of FPM from homeschooling families. The challenges to maintain our freedoms in California are greater every year, and therefore FPM's needs are greater. Funds for an additional staff member are required for FPM to continue to provide this outstanding advocacy in your behalf. It's imperative that FPM maintain their presence in Sacramento to ensure that our freedoms are maintained. Because FPM is supported by tax-deductible donations, their ability to remain viable is dependent on our financial support. Without our giving, FPM will not exist, and home education will be at the peril of the state. I am asking you to give sacrificially today to ensure our continued freedom to homeschool in California without intrusive state control. FPM needs both one-time gifts and new regular monthly support. For those of you who are already giving to FPM, I thank you and ask you to please consider giving more at this time. Those who give $40 or more each calendar year will receive FPM's newsletter on a complimentary basis. Make your tax-deductible gift payable to FPM, and mail it today to: FPM P.O. Box 730 Lincoln, CA 95648-0730 Your freedoms as you know it today depends upon having a strong voice in Sacramento to keep the liberal Legislature from imposing their radical views on home education and families. I ask you this question, "What is the price of liberty?" It is priceless! Please prayerfully consider what God would have you do to support Family Protection Ministries today. God Bless, Mike Smith HSLDA President ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> 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. Thank you HSLDA for all you do on our behalf! - West Valley, NY More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1941 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. 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