here<\/a>.<\/p>\n—–Original Email—–
\nLegislators:<\/p>\n
Please support Representative Cook\u2019s HB 2144 dealing with amending the Home School Law.<\/p>\n
In an ideal world home school can be a good thing for some students. Unfortunately the world is not ideal and as result of the current Home School Law
\nthe REAL educational needs of many students are not being met.<\/p>\n
If parents are sincere about home schooling their child\/children, it is certainly not an unreasonable burden placed on them to submit the required paperwork prior
\nto the beginning of each semester based on the deadline dates identified in HB 2144. Therefore; there are very few legitimate reasons to allow submission of
\npaperwork to begin home schooling anytime during the semester. The committee as proposed in this bill is a good thing and is certainly a step forward to make
\nsure that the reason(s) to request home schooling during a semester is\/are legitimate.<\/p>\n
From what I\u2019ve seen over the years, the REAL reason(s) that most parents file home school paperwork to begin during a semester is because their
\nchild\/children have gotten themselves into attendance problems, disciplinary problems, or they simply do not want to conform to rules or perform the required
\nschool work. I have also found in most instances it is the child that wants to file the home school paperwork and not necessarily the parent, but the parent does
\nnot have the stamina (backbone) to stand up to their child\/children in this matter.<\/p>\n
Some form of policing home school participants to insure that home schooling is truly taking place should be implemented. In many cases, once the paperwork
\nis completed and filed there is no more contact between the school and the home schooled child or parent. Many of these students are not taking the required
\ntest(s) as set forth in the Home School Law. Many of these parents are not filing home school paperwork each year as required by the Home School Law. Many
\nof these allegedly home school students are spending the day running up and down the roads in their trucks or cars, riding ATVs, hunting, fishing, etc. Public
\nschools do not have the time nor the resources to perform this policing.<\/p>\n
I feel reasonably sure that you will encounter many home school parents lobbying you to vote against this bill. The parents that will take the time to come to the
\nCapitol for this purpose in many cases are the parents that are sincerely trying to abide by the true intent of the Home School Law. I feel confident there are many
\nmore home school parents out in rural and in urban Arkansas that will never contact you because they are not sincerely trying to abide by the true intent of the Home School Law.<\/p>\n
Thank you for everything you do for the public schools of Arkansas.<\/p>\n
Sincerely,<\/p>\n
Dickie Williams
\nSuperintendent
\nSpring Hill School District<\/p>\n
—–End Original Email—–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today a group of us went to lobby members of the House Education Committee in regards to HB 2144, Rep. Cook\u2019s bad home school bill. While the bill did not come up today, I can tell you honestly that I believe we are making headway. Representatives told us they have received calls and emails from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[37,38,101,23],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","tag-bad-home-school-bill","tag-hb2144","tag-legislation","tag-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}