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| Date: From: Subject: | 10/25/2011 10:37:02 AM Home School Legal Defense Association Kansas--Oppose Discriminatory Morton Library Policy Tonight |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Kansas--Oppose Discriminatory Morton Library Policy Tonight The Morton County library has a policy forbidding teens from being in the library without a parent during public school hours. This discriminates against homeschool families and has the potential to create hardship. The policy is illogical. The supposed justification is that the library staff "can't tell who is truant." In the first place, librarians are not law enforcement officers. It's not their job to enforce the truancy laws. Secondly, what truant child is going to skip school and surreptitiously run off to the library?! It simply defies belief. And finally, if the library staff just feel like they MUST act like law enforcement, they can take half a minute of their time and ask the child why his is not in school--if they don't already know. If he says he's homeschooled, the matter is resolved. Or if they are just so jaded that they don't believe the teen, they could call the teen's parents. Or maybe call the officials actually charged with enforcing the truancy laws. There are many legitimate, sensible, sensitive ways to handle this. But a categorical, absolute, unconditional policy outlawing all teens in the library during public school hours is irrational and discriminatory. It's a blunt, hurtful weapon when many appropriate tools are actually available. ACTION REQUESTED Please attend the meeting tonight at 6 PM at the library to show your opposition to the policy. BACKGROUND Public school children are allowed to go to their own library during school hours. For homeschool families, the local public library is the equivalent of the school library. Why should the library prohibit homeschooled children from learning in the public library during the exact hours public school children are learning in their own library? Homeschool families have nothing equivalent to a public school library. This policy will create hardship for families counting on these tax-funded resources. Mature teens are well capable of using library time usefully. In any event, the Morton Library has behavior rules that are fair and sensible, and could be applied to handle any unruly student. Thank you for standing with us for freedom! Sincerely, Scott Woodruff HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> What's the shortest distance between two homeschoolers? HSLDA's elert service! When threats to homeschool freedoms arise, you want to be able to respond. We make it possible. More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1101 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. 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