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| Date: From: Subject: | 1/19/2011 2:20:07 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Oklahoma: Plan Now to Attend Home Education Day at the Capitol! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Oklahoma: Plan Now to Attend Home Education Day at the Capitol! Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Oklahoma is a state of great freedom for home education. Over 100 years ago, Oklahomans adopted a state constitution that recognized parents can provide "other means of education" to their children. As the freedom that you have in the Oklahoma Constitution is unique even in our great nation, it deserves our extra effort to be protected. One of the best ways you can help ensure the continued freedom of home education in Oklahoma, for your family and for future generations, is to attend the annual Home Education Day at the Capitol on February 17. When legislators see hundreds of energetic homeschool families touring the Capitol with their bright-eyed children, it makes homeschooling more real to them. Even more effective (for those who are able) is to meet with legislators. This puts a face to homeschooling and makes it more difficult for lawmakers to vote in favor of any negative home education bill. For more information about the Home Education Day at the Capitol event and to register today, please visit: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=10048 . Both Oklahoma Central Home Educators' Consociation (OCHEC) and Christian Home Educators Fellowship of Oklahoma (CHEF of OK) work hard monitoring legislation and keeping up relationships with legislators. Your presence will help fill the Capitol with homeschoolers and will be vital in protecting home education freedom in Oklahoma. Last year just over 1,600 people attended Home Education Day at the Capitol. Make your plans now to make this year's event even bigger! Now is the time for early registration. While you and your family can come if you haven't pre-registered, early registration is strongly encouraged. Registration allows you to get a name tag for the event, pick a track for the day and purchase a boxed lunch if desired. Visit http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=10049 to register now. HSLDA Federal Relations Director Will Estrada will be at this year's event and will speak to the Future Statesman program as well as present information to the adults on federal legislation we are monitoring. Tj Schmidt, HSLDA's staff attorney for Oklahoma, will be there again this year to share with the Track 1 adults important homeschool issues across the country as well as participate in the Legislative Impact session. REQUESTED ACTION: 1) Come to the Capitol on February 17, 2011, to participate in Home Education Day. 2) If you can't come to the Home Education Day at the Capitol, please pray for the event and see if your family could bake cookies to be given out to legislators. Each year the legislators love getting homemade cookies from homeschoolers. To participate in the cookie drop go to: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=10050 . Other ideas can be found here: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=10051 . BACKGROUND Last year approximately 1,600 homeschoolers came out for Home Education Day at the Capitol. Bring your family and help make this year's event even bigger. A large turnout will help demonstrate that the movement for home education freedom in Oklahoma is still going strong! If you are not yet a member of HSLDA and would like to help us fight for greater parental rights and homeschool freedom in Oklahoma please visit http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=10052 . If you would like to be put on our email list to receive vital e-lerts, you may sign up at http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=10053 . Thank you for your part in fighting for freedom in Oklahoma! Feel free to forward this to your friends who are homeschooling but may not be part of HSLDA, OCHEC, or CHEF of OK. 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