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| Date: From: Subject: | 4/30/2009 4:53:54 PM Home School Legal Defense Association N.H.--Attend "Definitions" Subcommittee Meeting to Resist Governmental Intrusion |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== April 30, 2009 New Hampshire--Attend "Definitions" Subcommittee Meeting to Resist Governmental Intrusion! Dear HSLDA Members and Friends, The "Definitions" subcommittee for H.B. 368 will have a work session on Wednesday, May 6, 2009, at 8:30 a.m. in Legislative Office Building 207. While there may be no time for public comment, the public is welcome to attend. Your continued attendance and close observation will keep pressure on the committees. Your attendance also shows support for homeschool freedom and is important to help us be prepared to meet the committee's ultimate recommendations. If you attend, bring a notepad, tape recorder, or video recorder as the meeting will not be officially recorded. At the last subcommittee meeting, the subcommittee chairman for "Evaluation and Records", Phillip Harvey, made an unusual move by inviting public testimony. This subcommittee met on Wednesday, April 29 at 10:00 a.m. in a room packed with 25 members of the public. Most attendees were homeschool parents and students. Only three of the five subcommittee members attended the meeting, with Barbara Shaw and Karen Hutchinson absent. Roberta Tenney of the Department of Education was invited to speak to the subcommittee. She introduced herself as the "administrator for home education, charter schools, school improvement, and accountability," and said "we are interested in fine-tuning the law, and if you remember, there was a recommendation that people present a plan at the beginning, and then we have some way of showing evidence that can be benchmarked over the years, of progress. Without any doubt many, many people do homeschool beautifully, and that's not the group we would be talking about. We would be talking about being conscious of all who sign up to homeschool." Three New Hampshire licensed teachers who have served as evaluators for New Hampshire homeschoolers were among those who testified. They reported that in thousands of reviews they had conducted over the past two decades, there have only been a handful of cases that were ever a concern to them. These families, the evaluators testified, usually ended up enrolling their children in school after it became apparent that homeschooling was not a fit for them. New Hampshire homeschoolers have nothing to fear from this "homeschool inquisition". We know that these vague and unfounded "concerns" about large numbers of students falling through the cracks is a red herring being used to attempt to subject educational freedom to more state control. With your help and vigilance we will defeat this attempt and prove once and for all that New Hampshire's homeschool law works fine and, if anything, should be loosened up, not tightened down. Thank you for your continued efforts to keep homeschooling in New Hampshire free from unnecessary government interference. Please keep up the spotlight on these hearings with your attendance! For more information on legislation in New Hampshire please go to www.hslda.org/nh Very truly yours, Michael P. Donnelly, Esq. HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Who's knocking on your door? When a social service worker arrives at your door, tension can run high. Wouldn't it be nice to get your lawyer on the phone, providing you with immediate step-by-step guidance? 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