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| Date: From: Subject: | 11/16/2010 4:23:25 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Wisconsin--Department of Public Instruction Persists in Unauthorized Demands |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Wisconsin--Department of Public Instruction Persists in Unauthorized Demands Dear HSLDA Members: The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) continues to demand information to which it is not entitled. A number of homeschool families submitted timely, complete annual statement of enrollment (DPI-1206) forms this fall, but received a letter back from the DPI saying their form did not include all required information. The families had, in fact, submitted all information the applicable state statute requires, but had refused to submit information about student gender, individual student grade levels, and "name of school of residence." This information is not required under law. The DPI even hinted that the children could be labeled truant if their parents did not submit the unauthorized information. HSLDA Senior Counsel Scott Woodruff responded and sent a letter to the DPI superintendent explaining that the families already submitted all required information. Woodruff also explained that while filing the form is required, it is not a condition of satisfying the compulsory school attendance law. The statutes are clear that a child's attendance in a program satisfies compulsory attendance if the program: (1) provides private or religious instruction as its primary purpose; (2) is privately controlled; (3) provides 875 hours of instruction; and (4) instructs in the required subjects in a "sequential progressive curriculum." All schools--public, private and homeschools--are required to file the annual statement of enrollment under Wisconsin statute 115.30(3). If a public or private school fails to submit a completed form, would all the students in that school suddenly become truant? No. Nor do homeschool students become truant if a family neglects to file the form, or files it not fully completed. Families should be diligent to file the statement of enrollment on time, and include all information required under law. But the DPI's implied threat of truancy action for those who don't submit the unauthorized information is misplaced. Scott Woodruff HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Have you ever yelled into the wind, only to hear the sound of your voice blown back at you? It's hard to be heard in the midst of a storm. Trying to influence federal legislation is much like yelling to be heard while standing in a fierce wind. Yet when 80,000 voices join together, they become a powerful force that cannot be drowned out. Join HSLDA to be heard above the tempests that threaten homeschool freedoms. 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