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| Date: From: Subject: | 4/20/2009 10:29:36 AM Home School Legal Defense Association Michigan: Please Come to Homeschool Family Days at the Capitol! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== April 20, 2009 Michigan: Please Come to Homeschool Family Days at the Capitol! Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: The Home Education League of Michigan will be hosting Homeschool Family Day at the Capitol over two days next week. This year you will have two days to choose from, either April 28 or 29. Each day will be full of exciting events for your whole family to learn about the legislative process and take part in helping to protect homeschool freedom. This event also helps provide some of the only contact that many legislators will have homeschooling families. We at the Home School Legal Defense Association want to encourage you to attend this event. I believe it is very important for as many homeschool families to attend as possible. Over the years, HSLDA has seen how well-attended homeschool events at the state Capitol can have a major impact in preserving and protecting homeschool freedom. Whenever a homeschool issue comes up before the legislature, many of these elected officials will remember the personal contact they have had with homeschool families. In our experience, homeschool capitol lobby days are one of the most effective ways of preventing or stopping bad legislation. The face-to-face contacts these legislators have with good homeschool families make it very hard for a legislator to vote against homeschooling. HSLDA Staff Attorney Thomas "Tj" Schmidt will speak on the importance of vigilance in order to continue to protect our homeschool freedoms and lead a workshop on the current threat to parental rights. He will explain how the threat of international law and the Convention of the Rights of a Child treaty could eliminate our freedom to homeschool and radically change our nation's laws that affect our children's upbringing. We encourage you to attend and take advantage of these Homeschool Family Days at the Capitol. Your homeschool family will have a unique opportunity to observe the legislative process and spend time with elected officials at the state Capitol. You will learn firsthand how laws are made, attend a committee meeting, visit your representative and senator, and observe a legislative session in progress. Choose from a variety of workshops and attend a legislative luncheon with state legislators and leaders. For more information on all of the activities go to: http://www.homeedmi.net/CapitolDay/tabid/65/Default.aspx . Hurry because registration closes at midnight on April 23rd! If you would like to meet with your legislators, be sure to plan ahead and make an appointment. Tell their office when you are coming, that you would like to see them, and schedule a time. There will be handouts available for you to give both days of the event. During the visit with your representative and senator, you will also have the opportunity to express opposition to H.B. 4130, H.B. 4132, H.B. 6674, and S.B. 170, which would raise the compulsory school attendance age to 18, and to S.B. 122, which would lower the compulsory school attendance age to 5. This event is sponsored by the Home Education League of Michigan along with legislative co-sponsor Senator Alan Cropsey (33rd District) and former Representative Jack Hoogendyk (61st District), both homeschool dads. For more information, visit www.HomeEdMi.net or contact Paulette Brack at (269) 353-9515 or at info@HomeEdMi.net. BACKGROUND: Below are five MORE reasons to attend Legislative Day: > Dispel any negative myths of the homeschool movement. > Give legislators an understanding of the large numbers of homeschoolers within the state. > Provide positive literature to legislators regarding homeschooling. > Spend one-on-one time with your legislator. > Your presence is necessary to show that the homeschool movement is alive, well, and thriving strong. Please help keep homeschooling free in Michigan. We make a significant statement to your representatives when hundreds of home educators participate in rally at the Capitol on April 28 and 29. We are keenly aware that our parental and homeschool freedoms are best preserved when we all stand together to defend them. We look forward to seeing you soon! Sincerely, Thomas (Tj) Schmidt Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> How many of your friends would pay your legal fees? 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