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| Date: From: Subject: | 9/10/2010 10:26:05 AM Home School Legal Defense Association Rhode Island--Keep Calling Chariho School Committee! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Rhode Island--Keep Calling Chariho School Committee! Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Thank you for your phone calls and emails to school committee members! Please continue until you have contacted each member! The school committee is trying to pass the buck regarding the demand for locator cards from homeschoolers. They are telling some people it's the Superintendent's job to approve or rescind the demand. But under the law, the Superintendent has NOTHING to do with homeschooling! The law says it is the school committee's job to approve homeschooling. The committee cannot pass the buck. As you keep calling, etc., ask the committee members to put this on the agenda for the very next school committee. If dropping the locator card demand requires a school committee decision, let's get it on their agenda. (Although it didn't take a committee decision for them to drop the demand last year!) Meanwhile, if you are a member of HSLDA and you receive a notice that the approval of your homeschool program will be on the agenda for a school committee meeting, contact HSLDA immediately so we can formulate a strategy. When I was talking to the school attorney yesterday, he asked what objection homeschoolers had to filling out the locator card. My reply: "The same objection we have every time the school tries to force us to do something that is not required under law." The duty to protect freedom cannot be delegated. This is your fight. CONTACT INFORMATION The mailing address and most emails for school committee members are listed below. You can use these or look up their phone numbers. For those who have listed their street address, a friendly personal visit during socially acceptable hours would be highly appropriate. Holly Eaves, Chairperson 9 General Stanton Lane Charlestown, RI 02813 hollyeaves@cox.net Robert Petit, Vice Chairperson 173 Skunk Hill Road Hope Valley, RI 02832 b_petit@hotmail.com George Abbott PO Box 169 Hopkinton, RI 02833 Deborah Carney 151 Auburn Drive Charlestown, RI 02813 carneygdj@aol.com Andrew Polouski PO Box 451 Charlestown, RI 02813 Michelle Cole 22 Buttonwoods Road Wyoming, RI 02898 mcole34@cox.net Andrew McQuaide 27 East Quail Run Charlestown, RI 02813 andrew02813@hotmail.com Richard Vecchio 5 Elizabeth Court Hope Valley, RI 02832 William Day 17 Nooseneck Hill Road Wyoming, RI 02898 Terri Serra 155 Kenyon Hill Trail Wyoming, RI 02898 Georgia Ure PO Box 123 Wyoming, RI 02898 BACKGROUND The "locator card" is a financial control tool. Each of the three towns in the Chariho Regional School District sends students to Chariho public schools. The locator card is part of the process of registering for enrollment in public school, or registering to get other benefits from the public school system. The locator card is used to make sure each of the three towns pays their "fair share" of Chariho expenses. But homeschool families who do not want to participate in any public school activity (such as sports) do not cause Chariho school system to incur any expense. It is therefore irrational to make homeschoolers fill out the card. And endure the hassle of brining their child's birth certificate to town hall in order to get the card. It has sometimes been argued that the locator card is necessary to determine whether the Chariho school committee is the correct school committee to act on paperwork from a particular family. But if the family has already submitted their street address, the school committee already knows it is the correct school committee. It serves no purpose to force a family to declare their street address twice. Thank you for standing with HSLDA and RIGHT for freedom! Scott Woodruff HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> How many acorns can a chipmunk hold in its cheeks? We don't know! But we do know that gathering little by little enables ordinary folks to prepare for hard times. That principle is behind HSLDA's payment plan: by paying a month at a time, families can receive an annual HSLDA membership. Meanwhile, they can feel secure as they homeschool and focus on other priorities -- their children. Don't go nuts trying to pay for membership all at once. Choose one of our convenient payment plans. More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1937 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. 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