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Smoky Mountain Home Educators Association - Cory G. Bennett, pres. www.smhea.org 2002 HOMESCHOOL GRADUATION The deadline for contacting us about participating in the SMHEA 2002 graduation was October 1. We will continue to accept participants through October 31. If you have a graduating senior that plans to participate in our graduation you must contact us immediately. If you have already contacted us please do so again so that we can confirm that you are on the list. We don't want anyone to fall through the cracks. Participants in the SMHEA graduation must be members of SMHEA. Membership is $10. Membership forms are available on our SMHEA Web site at www.smhea.org. Participating families will be charged a fee, based on actual expenses, which will be assessed at graduation meetings which will held after the first of the year. Questions about SMHEA graduation should be addressed to me, Cory Bennett, at this address. Cory Bennett, President
Smoky Mountain Home Education Association PSAT TESTING Christian Fellowship Academy offers PSAT/NMSQT Saturday, October 20, 2001, in West Knoxville area to area homeschool teens (grades 9-11). (Limited Seating)Pre-registration required. Cost $15/student Christian Fellowship Academy offers PSAT/NMSQT Saturday, October 20, 2001, in West Knoxville area to area homeschool teens (grades 9-11).
(Limited Seating)Pre-registration required.
Cost $15/student ***** If you have questions please contact Christian Fellowship
Academy directly at the address listed below. I can not answer
your questions. ******* HABITUAL TRUANT BILL **URGENT** SB 2145 Dear Home friend, Due to the illness of the sponsor, Senator Ward Crutchfield, the vote in the Senate Education Committee has been postponed until February 13. This means that we have more time to make calls. Please take a few minutes to carefully read this alert and then call Senator Jeffords. From the HSLDA@Capitol Hill E-lert Service... July 26, 2001 The original message I sent is reprinted below. Here are a few reasons why we don't want the bill to pass. They will help you when you call your Senator. After three years of drafting and lobbying for amendments to the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (H.R. 1 and S. 1), Home School Legal Defense Association has successfully attached several key amendments to protect home schooling (see below). However, two critical issues remain unresolved: 1) The police will have a very hard time knowing which schools are in or out of session on any particular day. Public and private schools have very different schedules at times. Also the daily schedules are different for many schools (time of starting and time of ending, etc.) 2) Students who are habitual truants will probably lie and get around the police's questioning. We don't want problem kids claiming to be homeschoolers just to avoid being picked up. 3) Primary argument - if a child is not in school, Tennessee law holds the parents responsible. 4) The school systems should be the ones responsible for keeping up with their absent students - not the police. School officials should be contacting the parents and working out their own plans for keeping up with truants, without the use of law enforcement picking up children. 5) Police don't have adequate time to deal with real lawbreakers. They should hot have to spend their time stopping kids because they happen to look like students and might be truant. Please continue to urge folks to make calls. This page was updated on Feb 7, 2002. |