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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/7/2013 11:47:45 AM Dee Black--HSLDA South Carolina: Calls Needed--Bad Bill Threatens Homeschooling |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== South Carolina: Calls Needed--Bad Bill Threatens Homeschooling Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Your calls and emails are needed to stop a bill that threatens your homeschool freedoms, even your ability to choose which homeschool option to use in South Carolina. House Bill 3478 would impose state testing on all homeschool students in both the South Carolina Association of Independent Home Schools (SCAIHS) and all homeschool associations. Additionally, results of the annual review of these organizations by the South Carolina Department of Education would have to be reported to the legislature. Further, these organizations would be required to provide the name of each student being homeschooled to their respective school districts, instead of providing just the number of students being homeschooled as is now required. But this is not the worst part of this terrible bill. It would ELIMINATE membership in a homeschool association under Section 59-65-47 of the South Carolina Code as an option for homeschooling on July 1, 2014. No longer would South Carolina homeschoolers be able to exercise what is known as the "third option" for complying with the compulsory attendance law. House Bill 3478 is sponsored by Representatives Norman D. "Doug" Brannon (Dist. 38), Michael A. "Mike" Anthony (Dist. 42), Jenny Anderson Horne (Dist. 94), and Joseph H. Jefferson (Dist. 102). It is currently in the House Education and Public Works Committee. This bill needs to be stopped in its tracks before it gains any momentum. Members of the House Education and Public Works Committee need to hear from you today! Action Requested: 1. Please call and/or email as many members of the House Education and Public Works Committee as possible with this message or a similar message in your own words: "Please vote against House Bill 3478, which would unfairly require homeschool students to take the same state tests as public school students. Homeschool students are not instructed using the same curriculum as public school students, yet they would be tested on material they may not have been taught. Even worse, this bill would eliminate membership in a homeschool association as an option for complying with the compulsory attendance law. There is no justification for taking this option away from thousands of law-abiding homeschool families and destroying the livelihood of those who administer these associations." The members of the House Education and Public Works Committee are as follows: Phillip D. "Phil" Owens, Chairman (R-5) (803) 734-3053 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=1433948692 Bill Taylor, 1st Vice Chairman (R-86) (803) 212-6923 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=1811363419 Robert L. Brown, 2nd Vice Chairman (D-116) (803) 734-3170 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=220454519 Lester P. Branham, Jr. (D-61) (803) 734-3002 Norman D. "Doug" Brannon (R-38) (803) 212-6876 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=184659069 Joseph S. Daning (R-92) (803) 734-2951 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=451136310 Raye Felder (R-26) (803) 212-6892 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=570454477 Jerry N. Govan, Jr. (D-95) (803) 734-3012 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=702272643 John Richard C. King (D-49) (803) 212-6873 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=1002272607 Harold Mitchell, Jr. (D-31) (803) 734-6638 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=1344318021 Ralph W. Norman (R-48) (803) 212-6888 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=1421590739 Andrew S. "Andy" Patrick (R-123) (803) 212-6928 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=1438636191 Joshua A. Putnam (R-10) (803) 212-6931 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=1497727093 Samuel Rivers, Jr. (R-15) (803) 212-6890 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=1564488449 Tommy M. Stringer (R-18) (803) 212-6881 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=1774999787 Don L. Wells (R-81) (803) 212-6884 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=1902272499 Mark N. Willis (R-16) (803) 212-6882 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=1942613404 Donna H. Wood (R-37) (803) 212-6878 http://www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?T=M&C=1976136127 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 Committee. View the text of this bill > > http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=17122 Please call or email today! Sincerely, Dewitt T. 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