Liza Sabater

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>Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:18:50 -0400
>Subject: [NHEN-Legislative] Fw: [PAhs] Fox news Transcript
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>Thoughts on this anyone?
>
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>From: "cindyd118330" <cindyd1@...>
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>Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 10:38 AM
>Subject: [PAhs] Fox news Transcript
>
>
>For those who missed the segment on Fox News last night...
>
>
>Fox News 9/6/02 Transcript
>
>(Anchorman) Do you have the right to teach your kids as you see fit -
>in the privacy of your own home? One state now says no, you can't do
>that. In fact - if you do - you could get arrested. Who should
>control your children's education you or the state?
>
>William Longenese (spelling?) reports. You decide.
>
>(narrator) It's back to school for the Andersons. Only this year the
>state considers their teacher a felon. The crime? Their mother
>schools Stan and Katie at home - without a teaching credential.
>
>(Homeschool Mom - Thurleen Anderson) ) "I decided that I could do
>better. We also are very committed to raising our children to be
>leaders."
>
>(Calif. Education Department Deputy Superintendent Scott Hill) "In
>the eyes of the department there is no way to read the law but to say
>that that's not an authorized education for those children."
>
>(Mike Smith - Home School Legal Defense) "Well that's their opinion,
>and we say they're wrong."
>
>(narrator) More than a million children nationwide are homeschooled
>With enrollment grow 15% per a year, some fear public education may
>suffer. Last month California did something about it - issuing this
>statewide directive. "In California homeschooling, a situation where
>noncredentialed parents teach their own children.. is not an
>authorized exemption from mandatory public school attendance.
>Therefore parents who homeschool their children are operating outside
>the law."
>
>(Mike Smith - Home School Legal Defense) "Perhaps this is an effort
>to scare people not to remove their child from public school. They
>are telling them it's illegal for most of them unless they are a
>certified teacher."
>
>(Calif. Education Department Deputy Superintendent Scott Hill) "The
>law is very clear kids must be educated. There's a compulsorily
>education law in California. Kids are required to go to school. They
>are require to learn our state content standards. That is the law."
>
>(narrator) It is now up to the local districts to enforce truancy
>statutes and while many won't bother. One's already going door to
>door looking for kids who are homeschooled. Then it's up to a local
>DA to prosecute parents - not because they can't teach, but because
>they don't carry a teaching credential.
>* * * *
>
>I'm wondering if flooding the California Department of Education with
>an email campaign would help the homeschoolers in California. The
>HSLDA asked for email to go to Germany several years ago, and that
>was supposed to have been effective. What do you think?
>
>Cindy Deutsch
>
>cindyd1@...
>
>Feel free to post this on any other groups where you feel it would be
>appropriate.
>

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Mary Bianco

> >
> >For those who missed the segment on Fox News last night...


Well I didn't see this or hear anything about it but it's down right scary.
Sounds like a nightmare I have!

Mary B



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Fetteroll

on 9/6/02 11:36 AM, Liza Sabater at liza@... wrote:

>> Thoughts on this anyone?

>> Subject: [PAhs] Fox news Transcript

I see HSLDA and Fox News together sounding the alarm.

They both use the alarm freely. The Alerts HSLDA sends out for every state
would make me fear that any moment DSS or the law would be knocking on my
door! ;-)

If you check with Homeschool Association of California (http://www.hsc.org)
you can see what they're advising homeschoolers in CA to do about the
letters.

Joyce

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In a message dated 9/6/02 2:07:52 PM, fetteroll@... writes:

<<
I see HSLDA and Fox News together sounding the alarm.

They both use the alarm freely. The Alerts HSLDA sends out for every state
would make me fear that any moment DSS or the law would be knocking on my
door! ;-) >>

If HSLDA can get enough people stirred up about California's lack of law,
won't they (HSLDA) be in there proposing laws soon so they can say "Join our
association and give us $100 a year because WE made homeschooling legal in
Calfornia, and WE understand the new laws better than anyone and YOU all owe
us for the right to homeschool"?

Sandra