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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/21/2012 4:24:55 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Rhode Island: Help Reverse Onerous New Demands in East Greenwich |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Rhode Island--Help Reverse Onerous New Demands in East Greenwich The new policy is an immediate threat to your freedom to homeschool your children. Dear HSLDA members and friends in East Greenwich: Without even talking to the families who would be affected, the East Greenwich school committee rushed through a major homeschool policy change while you were resting over Christmas and New Years! Now we need your help to turn the tide. Some of the unreasonable new demands are itemized below. Every homeschool family will find its burden increased, and its privacy invaded, if this policy is not immediately suspended and a task force appointed to develop an alternative policy based on consensus. Creating a major new policy with no notice to those affected, without the consent of the governed, over the biggest holiday season of the year--virtually in the dark of the night--should not be tolerated. ACTION REQUESTED Please call every member of the East Greenwich school committee (phone numbers below). Ask them to immediately suspend the new policy and appoint a task force made up of homeschool parents and school representatives to create a new consensus-based policy. Send this email to other homeschool families you know in East Greenwich. We need the help of every East Greenwich homeschool family! CONTACT INFORMATION--SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBERS Dr. Deidre Gifford, Chair (401) 885-3016 deidregiff@cox.net Mr. Robert Durant, Vice-Chair (401) 885-8450 rdurant@eapdlaw.com Mr. David Green (401) 885-0839 avidegsc@gmail.com Mr. Jack Sommer (401) 884-0474 ackgsommer@gmail.com Mrs. Mary Ellen Winters (401) 885-1111 parkavedoc@aolcom Mrs. Susan Records (401) 885-4619 usan.records@cox.net Mr. Paul Martin, (401) 884-1881 BACKGROUND Here is a link to the new policy: http://www.egsd.net/files/702045/home%20school%20policy%20revised%2012 .20.11.pdf Below are some of the worst demands in the new policy and the accompanying forms. Quarterly progress reports are demanded "Documentation" of progress is demanded Work samples for each subject are demanded Information is demanded on many subjects that are not required under law A "special" attendance register is demanded It demands daily attendance records for each quarter It demands records of hours attended daily It demands that you state whether you met the required number of days and hours The "Home School Request" form demands a detailed description of the curriculum to be used It demands that you explain in detail your instructional strategies It demands that you explain in detail your ability to effectively instruct your children It demands that you explain your reason for requesting homeschooling Once the school committee appoints a task force with homeschool parents on it, the task force can meet and work on developing a consensus on what should be in the East Greenwich homeschool policy. Thank you for standing with us for freedom in Rhode Island! 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