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May 5th, 2008, 11:52 AM
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May 5, 2008
Tennessee: Calls Needed on Diploma Bill
Dear HSLDA Members and Friends:
We need your help now! Tennessee homeschoolers are facing both a
tremendous opportunity and a potentially devastating threat by
legislation being considered this afternoon by the House Education
Committee in Nashville.
Our friend, Representative Mike Bell, has proposed an amendment to House Bill 1652 which would require the state to recognize high school diplomas issued by homeschools and church-related schools. This amendment was necessitated by the current policy of the Tennessee Department of Education that diplomas from church-related schools are worthless and are insufficient for employment and admission to schools beyond high school. This is an opportunity to remedy an injustice and discrimination against the thousands of students being taught by their parents through church-related schools.
In reaction to Representative Bell's amendment, the Department of
Education has proposed its own amendment which would prevent the vast majority of parents from even teaching their high school level children. This amendment would require that all parents conducting a homeschool and all teachers in church-related schools (Category IV Schools) have a bachelor's degree in order to teach students in grades 9-12. This is a threat to your basic freedoms which must be stopped today!
Today at 3:00 p.m., the House Education Committee will hear House Bill 1652 and consider these amendments. Please take time right now to contact members of the Committee and express your support for Representative Bell's amendment and your opposition to the Department of Education's amendment.
May 5, 2008
Tennessee: Calls Needed on Diploma Bill
Dear HSLDA Members and Friends:
We need your help now! Tennessee homeschoolers are facing both a
tremendous opportunity and a potentially devastating threat by
legislation being considered this afternoon by the House Education
Committee in Nashville.
Our friend, Representative Mike Bell, has proposed an amendment to House Bill 1652 which would require the state to recognize high school diplomas issued by homeschools and church-related schools. This amendment was necessitated by the current policy of the Tennessee Department of Education that diplomas from church-related schools are worthless and are insufficient for employment and admission to schools beyond high school. This is an opportunity to remedy an injustice and discrimination against the thousands of students being taught by their parents through church-related schools.
In reaction to Representative Bell's amendment, the Department of
Education has proposed its own amendment which would prevent the vast majority of parents from even teaching their high school level children. This amendment would require that all parents conducting a homeschool and all teachers in church-related schools (Category IV Schools) have a bachelor's degree in order to teach students in grades 9-12. This is a threat to your basic freedoms which must be stopped today!
Today at 3:00 p.m., the House Education Committee will hear House Bill 1652 and consider these amendments. Please take time right now to contact members of the Committee and express your support for Representative Bell's amendment and your opposition to the Department of Education's amendment.