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Looking for in-state signatures for an online petition to the NH House
Education Committee, which is currently reviewing the NH home education
law. This law is inequitable as it holds home educators to a higher
standard than any other educator in the state. Rather than simply
compare our inequitable home ed law to various inequitable home ed laws
from other states, which is the committee's inclination, we're asking
that they actually research and consider the constitutional basis for
the law. We want equal treatment under the law for home educators.

Please consider signing our petition if you are a NH resident, or
forwarding this email to other hs'ing lists that have NH residents. A
copy of the text of the petition and link to the petition follows.

Thank you,

Doris Hohensee
New Hampshire



http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/homeschooling-freedom-in-nh

Homeschooling Freedom in NH
Target: NH
Sponsored by: NH Homeschool Defense League

We the undersigned residents of New Hampshire do hereby petition our
representatives on the House Education Committee to carefully review
the history and strong tradition of parental rights during their study
of HB 368 on home education. There is no constitutional basis for many
of the requirements made in the current home education law, RSA 193-A.
It is inequitable.

Parents must not be considered 'guilty until proven innocent' of
educational neglect when they educate their children at home. Other
non-public educators do not have statutory requirements to produce
evidence on the academic progress of their students; nor are their
programs at risk of probation or termination based upon these outcomes.
Home educators must have equal treatment under the law.

It's a parent's right and responsibility to educate his/ her child
unless he/she transfers that responsibility to a public school. There
is no statutory oversight of non-public school programs; the only
oversight is parental oversight. Parental oversight is the natural
order.



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Jeremy J. Olson