House Education Committee What Homeschoolers Can Do
When the House Education Committee has met in the past, members
of the House supportive of homeschooling suggested homeschoolers not pack
the meeting, but instead send representatives from support groups. HSLDA
recommended that everyone attend. HEIR, GHEA, and HSLDA were
represented on the agenda. A variety of support group representatives
attended.
This legislative committee will acquire
many important facts, statistics, surveys, and reports. However, its members
still may not have a clear picture of the parents and adults who as individuals
with their families have made the commitment to homeschool.
To clarify that picture, each one of us can write a one-page letter to the chairman and other members of the House Education Committee and send a copy to
our individual House Representative by the day before the next meeting.
The courteous and sincere written
expression of personal convictions about home education may touch the hearts as
well as the minds of our state representatives.
Anyone who has been touched by the value
of homeschooling including teachers, grandparents, other relatives, friends,
and neighbours can also write the legislators and this committee!
See the letter forms, as a
guide to addressing and closing your personal message.
In its capacity as an information resource, HEIR will continue to
provide homeschoolers with information that can broaden the opportunities to
participate in the legislative process on behalf of homeschooling.