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| Date: From: Subject: | 3/10/2011 4:29:11 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Wisconsin--"Intermittent Attendance," Daytime Curfew Ordinance Threats |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Wisconsin--"Intermittent Attendance," Daytime Curfew Ordinance Threats Dear Wisconsin Members and Friends: Efforts to impose daytime curfews, as well as efforts to create a new crime called "intermittent attendance" are popping up in towns across the state. "Intermittent attendance" is not defined. It is probably intended to refer to homeschool families who try out various lawful educational settings for their children before settling on homeschooling. If intermittent attendance is a crime, a parent's flexibility in changing his child's educational setting could be jeopardized. Daytime curfews make it a crime for young people to move about normally during the daytime. Even with exceptions, they create an atmosphere of fear that inhibits young people from exercising fundamental freedoms. Sometimes a daytime curfew is referred to as "prohibited daytime loitering by minors." ACTION REQUESTED Keep a close eye on your municipal government. Read agendas for coming meetings. Stay in touch with any municipal officials you know. If you learn of any effort to impose a daytime curfew or criminalize "intermittent attendance," let us know promptly. HSLDA opposes daytime curfews and efforts to take away the freedom of parents to choose from among lawful educational options. SUN RIVER Sun River recently adopted a daytime curfew without the knowledge of the homeschool community. It is section 9.24.090 of the municipal code. Contact us if you live in Sun River and would like to work with others to repeal it. MIDDLETON Middleton also recently adopted a daytime curfew without the knowledge of the homeschool community. It is ordinance 16.04(2)(b). If you live in Middleton and would like to participate in an effort to repeal it, please contact us. STOUGHTON The Stoughton City Council recently proposed an ordinance criminalizing "intermittent attendance carried on for the purpose of defeating the intent" of the compulsory attendance laws. The absence of definitions and vagueness of this language would allow judges to interpret it just as they please. It is not the vagueness, only, but the concept itself that is objectionable. State law allows families several ways to satisfy compulsory attendance requirements. But the liberty to pick from among lawful options must remain with the parents. When parents want to try out various options, it may occasionally inconvenience school administrators. But this is a small price to pay for respecting fundamental parental rights. The same proposed ordinance would also create a daytime curfew. When the homeschool community became aware of the proposed ordinance, the council referred the ordinance to the Public Safety Committee for its March 23 meeting. Alderman Steve Tone is following up on this. If you have a relationship with anyone on the Stoughton City Council (other than Steve Tone) or the Public Safety Committee, please consider contacting them and asking them to oppose both the criminalizing of "intermittent attendance" and the daytime curfew proposal. Thank you for standing with us for freedom! Sincerely, Scott Woodruff HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> You can only do so much... No one can be everywhere at once. And you can't be at home, teaching your children, while monitoring your state's legislature. Through electronic legislative services, HSLDA is monitoring state legislation for you -- watching and listening carefully for any proposed laws that could erode your right to homeschool. Join HSLDA today-we'll watch out for your future. 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