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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/6/2009 2:47:01 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Oklahoma: Update--No More Calls Needed! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== February 6, 2009 Oklahoma: Update-No More Calls Needed! Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Oklahoma Christian Home Educators Consociation (OCHEC) has confirmed from Senator Jonathan Nichols, the chairman of the Rules Committee, that Senate Bills 308 and 472 will be killed in committee. Therefore, you do not need to make phone calls at this time. Instead, please email Senator Nichols your appreciation for his support of homeschooling and opposition to these bills. Instead of calling the rest of the Senate Rules Committee, those of you who will be attending the Oklahoma Home Educators Capitol Day can communicate with your legislators why these bills were an attack on parental freedom. Bills like S.B. 308 and S.B. 472 are why it is so crucial that homeschool families participate in Capitol Day. Legislators who have had some personal interaction with homeschool families are much more likely to oppose negative homeschool bills and support freedom. Thank you for your willingness for prompt action on this legislation. REQUESTED ACTION: 1. Please email Senator Jonathan Nichols, chairman of the Rules Committee, and thank him for his support of home education freedom. Senator Jonathan Nichols (R Email: nichols@oksenate.gov 2. Plan on attending the Oklahoma Home Educators' Capitol Day on February 10. This will provide you with a great opportunity to impact these bills, to get to meet your legislators and to create a positive impression for home education. For more information on the upcoming Capitol Day go to: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=6081 . BACKGROUND Senate Bill 472 would require every parent or guardian who is providing "other means of education" (i.e. home education) to their child to notify their local school district of this fact. If this bill were passed, every parent would have to submit a notice of their intent before the first day of each school year or within 10 days from beginning their home education program. Senate Bill 472 would also require parents to submit a report of each of their children's academic progress at the end of each semester. Every parent would be required to submit two reports a year to their local public school officials for each child to demonstrate how that child was doing in their home education program. Senate Bill 308 and Senate Bill 472 would allow local police or certain public school officials to take temporary custody of any child who was taught at home. Under both S.B. 308 and S.B. 472, whenever a child is away from their home without an adult present, a police officer or school official could pick them up and temporarily detain them. Currently under Oklahoma law, children who are taught at home cannot be picked up and detained; they are exempt. Some of you may remember that in the 2007 legislative session Senator Jim Wilson introduced a bill that was virtually identical to current Senate Bill 472. That bill, Senate Bill 375, was successfully defeated by the prayers and hard work of families all across Oklahoma. By those same efforts it looks as though we were able again to defeat attempts to restrict the freedom of home education in Oklahoma. If you are not yet a member of HSLDA and would like to help us fight for greater parental rights and homeschool freedom in Oklahoma please visit http://www.hslda.org/join/apply.asp . If you would like to be put on our email list to receive vital e-lerts, you may sign up at https://secure.hslda.org/hslda/elert/account.asp?Process=Subscribe . Thank you for your part in fighting for freedom in Oklahoma! Feel free to send this to others who are supportive of home education freedom. 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