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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/24/2012 11:25:59 AM Home School Legal Defense Association Maine: Call to Support Amending LD 1503! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Call to Support Amending LD 1503! Dear Maine HSLDA Members and Friends: We are at a critical stage--more phone calls are needed today and early next week! Thanks in large part to your phone calls, the Maine legislature may now be questioning the wisdom of LD 1503, which expands compulsory attendance from the 7th birthday down to the 6th, and from the 17th up to the 18th. Representative Ellie Espling (New Gloucester area) has drafted an excellent amendment that takes out all parts of LD 1503 that expand compulsory age, but leaves in all the parts that deal with other topics. We need your calls today and early next week to urge the Maine legislature to adopt the Espling amendment! REQUESTED ACTION 1. Call your Maine state representative and your Maine state senator today or early next week and ask them to vote "yes" on the Espling amendment to LD 1503. Your message can be as simple as: "Please vote YES on the Espling Amendment to LD 1503. This will protect parents' rights but give schools the additional tools they want for dealing with truancy." Use our Legislative Toolbox and type in your ZIP code to determine who your Maine state senator and Maine state representative is are. It's fine to leave a message for your senator or representative. Toolbox: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=13833 This bill, if the Espling amendment is not adopted, would undermine the freedom of all parents. It is not necessary for you to identify yourself as a homeschooler. 2. Please forward this to other Maine homeschoolers! BACKGROUND In addition to expanding compulsory age, LD 1503 changes truancy and expulsion procedures. This is not problematic for homeschool families. Most of these changes relate to procedures to be used with public school students who are unruly or truant. A legislative committee amended LD 1503 some time ago. The version of the bill now under consideration is therefore called "the committee amendment." When you call your senator and representative, it is important that you specifically ask him or her to vote yes on the ESPLING amendment. This way they will not get confused or mistakenly think you are asking them to vote yes on "the committee amendment." Homeschoolers of Maine (HOME) and HSLDA are united in opposing the attempt to expand compulsory school attendance age. Thank you for your calls on behalf of freedom in Maine! Sincerely, Scott Woodruff HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Is customer service an art or a science? For us, good customer service is both an art and a science -it should appeal to our members and be effective. 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