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| Date: From: Subject: | 1/28/2011 3:24:33 PM Home School Legal Defense Association South Dakota--Urgent: Your Help Needed to Support Homeschool Bill |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== South Dakota--Urgent: Your Help Needed to Support Homeschool Bill Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: A bill that will protect homeschoolers from a number of abuses they have suffered recently is scheduled for a crucial committee hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 2, in Pierre. It needs and deserves your strong support! The bill, HB 1133, would make it explicit that your homeschool paperwork is valid and effective as soon as you file it. Your homeschool program would clearly be legal immediately--without being vulnerable to legal trouble while waiting for the bureaucratic wheels to creak along to their unpredictable conclusion. And it would allow you to use a homeschool form other than the Department of Education's. They have recently manipulated the form in unjustifiable ways, including the addition of a threat to send "school observers" to families who refuse to disclose the race and ethnicity of all their children! ACTION REQUESTED 1. Come to the hearing Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 7:45 a.m. in Pierre, Room 413 in the Capitol building. Your presence, and your words, if you speak, will convey a powerful message to the committee. 2. Before Wednesday morning, contact your representative if he or she is listed below and ask them to support the bill. Your message can be as simple as, "Please support HB 1133. It will protect homeschool families from bureaucratic abuse." Use our legislative toolbox at http://www.hslda.org/toolbox to see if your representative is listed below. 3. Forward this message to any homeschool family who may not be a member of HSLDA or South Dakota Christian Home Educators (SDCHE). CONTACT INFORMATION--MEMBERS OF HOUSE EDUCATION COMMITTEE Use number below or go to http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=10134 for email information. Elaine Elliot Home (605)225-7136 Roger Hunt Home (605) 582-3865 Capitol (605) 224-6877 Tom Jones Home (605) 766-5457 Kevin Killer Home (605) 454-8105 Larry Lucas Home (605) 856-2439 Capitol (605) 773-3851 Tad Perry Home (605) 494-0192 James Schaefer Home (605) 869-2357 Capitol (605) 224-6877 Jacqueline Sly Home (605) 343-4956 Capitol (605) 381-9116 Patricia Stricherz Home (605) 201-6372 Representatives Brunner, Haggar, Tulson, Vanneman and Venner are members of the committee but not listed above because they are cosponsors and do not need to be contacted. Representatives Brunner, Haggar, Tulson, Vanneman and Venner are members of the committee but not listed above because they are cosponsors and do not need to be contacted. BACKGROUND INFORMATION One family filed their homeschool form in early November. The school secretary signed to acknowledge receipt. The family heard absolutely nothing for at least eight weeks. Another family filed their form and was told they could not take their children out of public school until the school committee approved them for homeschooling. They were told their paperwork would be denied--for a reason not allowed under law. Then the school staff "lost" the form. Only after legal intervention did the school system perform its duty--29 days after the family filed its form! Another family filed their form and was told the kids must stay in public school until the school board took action. The school board then denied their exemption--for a reason not permitted under law. Only after legal intervention did the school board reverse its decision. HB 1133 would put an end to this type of abuse. 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