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| Date: From: Subject: | 4/27/2011 3:40:17 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Alabama: Calls Needed to Oppose Compulsory Attendance Age Bill |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Alabama: Calls Needed to Oppose Compulsory Attendance Age Bill Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Your calls are needed to stop a bill that would expand state control over education in Alabama. Current law requires school attendance beginning at age 7. House Bill 6 would lower this to age 6. This would add another year of homeschooling for every child, regardless of the child's level of maturity or readiness to begin formal instruction at age 6. Unfortunately, House Bill 6 passed the Alabama House of Representatives on April 19. It is now in the Senate where it is being considered by the Senate Education Committee. This bill has a lot of momentum behind it at this time, but hundreds of calls to the members of the Senate Education Committee can stop it before it goes any further. ACTION REQUESTED: 1. Please call and/or email members of the Senate Education Committee with this message or something similar in your own words: "Please vote against House Bill 6 which would lower Alabama's compulsory school attendance age from 7 to 6. Parents, not state officials, are best able to determine when their child is ready for formal education." When contacting a member of the committee, do not identify yourself as a homeschooler. This issue is broader than homeschooling. This is a parental rights issue affecting all Alabama families with children. The names and contact information for members of the Senate Education Committee are as follows: Dick Brewbaker, Chairperson (334) 242-7895 dick.brewbaker@alsenate.gov Quinton Ross, Jr.,Vice Chairperson (334) 242-7880 quinton.ross@alsenate.gov Gerald Allen (334) 242-7889 gerald.allen@alsenate.gov Slade Blackwell (334) 242-7851 sb@sladeblackwell.com Bill Holtzclaw (334) 242-7854 bill.holtzclaw@alsenate.gov Trip Pittman (334) 242-7897 trip.pittman@alsenate.gov Henry "Hank" Sanders (334) 242-7860 2. Please forward this email to every family you know who is not a member of HSLDA and urge them to contact members of the Senate Education Committee. BACKGROUND: Many education experts have concluded that beginning a child's formal education too early may actually result in burnout and poor scholastic performance later. Lowering the compulsory attendance age erodes the authority of parents who are in the best position to determine when their child's formal education should begin. This bill would restrict parents' freedom to decide if their children are ready for school. Another significant impact of expanding the compulsory attendance age would be an inevitable tax increase to pay for more classroom space and teachers to accommodate the additional students compelled to attend public school. To view the text of this bill, please go to http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11026 For more information on compulsory attendance, please see our memorandum at http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11027 Please call or email today! Sincerely, Dewitt T. Black, III HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Will your friends stand by you in trouble? They will if you're an HSLDA member and your homeschool is threatened. HSLDA is ready to stand by your side along with 80,000 other homeschool families. 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