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| Date: From: Subject: | 5/3/2010 3:56:25 PM Home School Legal Defense Association South Carolina--Calls Needed: Driver's License Bill Threatens Families |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== South Carolina--Calls Needed: Driver's License Bill Threatens Families Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Your calls are needed today to stop a bad bill in the South Carolina General Assembly which would prohibit issuance of a driver's license to anyone under age 18 unless the person was enrolled in school, had completed high school, or had obtained a GED. Last Thursday, the House of Representatives completed the second reading of House Bill 3645 and voted 67 to 29 in favor of the bill. The House is expected to give final consideration of the bill tomorrow. House Bill 3645 would require school districts and homeschool associations to maintain daily attendance records for homeschool students (obviously from information first provided by the parent) and notify the Department of Motor Vehicles if a child over age 15 but under age 18 had seven or more unlawful absences, had been expelled, or had dropped out of school. The Department of Motor Vehicles would then suspend the child's driver's license. This bill is basically a back-door approach to increasing South Carolina's compulsory attendance age from 17 to 18. It would effectively require families conducting home instruction for their children to comply with the law for an additional year unless one of the exceptions mentioned above applied. Also disturbing is that this bill would put homeschool associations in the business of daily monitoring of student attendance--a tremendous administrative burden that the current law does not require. Except in unusual circumstances, it is also highly unlikely that parents are going to provide information to a homeschool association that will result in the revocation of their children's driver's license. State legislators need to know that you object to this unreasonable expansion of state control over education and driving privileges. Let your voice be heard today! ACTION REQUESTED: 1. Please contact your state representative with this message in your own words: "Please vote against House Bills 3645. This bill would essentially raise the compulsory attendance age in South Carolina from 17 to 18. It would prohibit a child under age 18 from getting a driver's license unless the child was enrolled in school, had completed school, or had obtained a GED. Requiring students over age 17 to involuntarily remain in school will have a disruptive and expensive effect on education. Families in South Carolina should continue to have the right to choose other options for children who have reached age 17." You can find the name and telephone number of your state representative by going to the South Carolina Legislature's website at http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=8211 . 2. Please forward this email to every family you know who is not a member of HSLDA and urge them to contact their state representatives with this same message. To review the text of House Bill 3645, go to http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=8212 . Please call your state representative before you close this email. Sincerely, Dewitt T. Black, III HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> "I saved my entire membership fee with one discount" "When I called Liberty to find out what kind of discount we could get, they told us we would 10% off our car insurance and 5% off our homeowner's insurance. 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