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| Date: From: Subject: | 10/1/2010 4:27:56 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Rhode Island--All-Hands Call to Action in Chariho |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Rhode Island--All-Hands Call to Action in Chariho Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Despite an excellent turnout from homeschoolers and overwhelming testimony that making homeschoolers fill out locator cards is offensive, wasteful and outside of written policy, the Chariho School Committee refused to take responsibility Tuesday night and punted the entire issue to their attorneys. Their lack of decisive action will not only cost taxpayers more money (the lawyers don't work for free!), but implies that the school committee is indifferent as to how bad the policy or practice might be--as long as it doesn't land them in front of a judge. It's time to step up the pressure on the school committee. ACTION REQUESTED 1. The Chariho School Committee seems to think the towns actually want locator cards from homeschoolers. Please call all the members of your own town council (Richmond, Charleston, Hopkinton--see list below) and ask them to contact the Chariho School Committee and tell them they do NOT want or need locator cards from homeschoolers. Your town council members are up for election this November. If they don't respond to the needs of the people, they should be replaced. 2. Please contact all school committee members (see list below town council) to express your disappointment in how they refused on Tuesday to adopt a written policy clearly forbidding the administration from requiring homeschoolers to fill out locator cards. Ask them to place our requested change to the homeschool policy on the agenda for their next meeting. We don't want any member of the committee to be able to forget about this issue until they have done justice for us. 3. Develop a strategy for what you personally will do if a truant officer comes to your door. For example, for safety's sake, you might first ask to see his driver's license and check the name and photo (other forms of identification can easily be faked), then have him wait outside until you can call the school administration number and positively confirm that he is who he says. Imposters can be dangerous. Once you're satisfied he's not an imposter, you may want to show him your copy the notice of intent you filed and confirm that this is where you reside. But if he asks you any other questions, you may want to say, "Please send me your questions in writing. I will get back to you as soon as my attorney has had time to review them." 4. If the school committee delays or denies your homeschool "approval" for the purported reason that you have not filled out a locator card, this would cross an important threshold. Notify HSLDA immediately if you are a member. CONTACT INFORMATION Charlestown: (Note - terms expire Nov. 2010) Gregory J. Avedisian 354 West Beach Road Charlestown, RI 02813 401-322-8347 avedglgm@cox.net Charlene Q. Dunn PO Box 95 Carolina, RI 02812 401-364-6330 chrlndunn@yahoo.com Marjorie F. Frank 4700 Old Post Road Charlestown, RI 02813 401-364-6645 marge@independentfrank.com Richard H. Hosp 29 Lincoln Road Charlestown, RI 02813 401-322-8983 hosprichard@yahoo.com Forrester C. Safford 62 Sea View Drive Charlestown, RI 02813 401-322-1359 fcsafford@aol.com Richmond - Terms expire Nov. 2010 B. Joe Reddish III, President (401) 539-8798 Henry R. Oppenheimer, Vice President (401) 539-4025 James E. Thayer (401) 258-5967 Gerard P. Curran (401) 364-3923 Richard L. Osborne (401) 539-7405 Hopkinton - all terms expire in November: Thomas E. Buck, President (401) 377-2418 Sylvia Thompson, Vice President (401) 377-4912 Barbara Capalbo (401) 377-2254 Beverly Kenney (401) 539-7766 Frank T. Landolfi (401) 539-9912 CHARIHO School Committee 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 (401) 377-2279 PO Box 169 Hopkinton, RI 02833 Deborah Carney 151 Auburn Drive Charlestown, RI 02813 carneygdj@aol.com Andrew Polouski (401) 364-8863 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 Thank you for standing with HSLDA and RIGHT for freedom! Scott Woodruff HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Is customer service an art or a science? 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